g.yag
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yak [IW]
the yak [RY]
male yak [RY]
ox, cow, bull yak, tibetan male yak, bos grunniens, du horn of a yak, yak [JV]
(sman) Domestic Yak and Yak-cow ('bri) (Bos grunniens) (Drungtso 1999)
g.yag ni/ yul 'brong dang mo la 'bri zer/ bod kho nar byung ba'i ba glang spu ring ba/ rwa dang sna gyen du brdzi ba kha dog nag sngo dkar sogs yod cing de'i rwas rwa tsha bzo ba'o// shel sgong las/ rgod 'brong dang phyugs g.yags thug rwas rma 'bras pho nad sel// zhes gsungs so// (mDzes mtshar mig rgyan, print p 242)
Illustrations : 'Phrin Las 1987 (23_064) g.yag (23_106) g.yag sha (33_080) g.yag sre bo'i sbugs zhes pho rtsa'i khrag (33_110) g.yag rog po'i mkhris pa (24_033) 'bri'i 'o ma (23_124) 'bri'i mar. Jam-dpal (print p 242) g.yag
A hypothetical timeline of the domestication process starts about 7.300 BP with nomadic herders, which burn grazing land to favorize the yaks. The first findings of agricultural settlements are not older than 5.200 BP, one finds cattle evidence around 4.500 BP in Qinghai, around 3.300 BP in Tibet. A strong increase of the yak population is observed around 3.600 BP (after the introduction of domesticated sheep, goats, wheat and barley). Cross-breeding between yak and cattle are well established independantly in W and E Tibet around 3.200 BP. There are separate words for male and female yak as well as F1 hybrids in proto-tibetan languages. The old tibetan words yak, 'bri, mdzo and 'brong are borrowed into other languages, 'bri becomes the sanskrit camari, 'brong is applied in burmese languages not to the wild yak, but to the wild gaur (Bos gaurus). Breeding terminology develops, f. ex. mgal for F2-hybrids between yak and dzo, rtol for F2-hybrids between bull and dzo.
For the Wild yak see 'brong.
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 11:47, 18 February 2024 (EST)