Jong vs Tong - What's the difference?
jong | tong |
A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.
*1933 , (Robert Byron), First Russia, Then Tibet , Tauris Parke 2011, p. 211:
*:When they had gone I went for a solitary ride, rounding the Jong and striking out into the country through a subsidiary village.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 451:
*:However, the Tibetans refused to negotiate – except on the British side of the frontier – and withdrew into their fortress, or jong .
*2011 , Peter Harrison, Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas , Osprey 2011, p. 14:
*:The origin of the Tibetan dzong is not known although there is evidence of Chinese and Mongol influences in the style of their military architecture.
----
An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
* 1998 , Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz (editors), Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity , page 232:
As nouns the difference between jong and tong
is that jong is boy, lad while tong is tone, shade.jong
English
Alternative forms
*dzongNoun
(en noun)tong
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tange'', from a Germanic root. Cognate to Old Norse ''t?ng'' (modern Icelandic .Noun
(en noun)- these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs' in some lists: in order to make a '''tong''' one needs a '''tong''', and how could the first '''tong''' be made without a ' tong ?