ཐེ
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Tibetan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Has been connected to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *teɣ (“God”); compare Chinese 帝 (OC *teːɡs, “God of Heaven”), 禘 (OC *deːɡs, “a kind of sacrifice”), Jingpho [script needed] (mə³¹-tai³³, “god of the sky”), Proto-Bodo-Garo *mɯ-Dai⁴ (“spirit; god”) (Coblin, 1986; Schuessler, 2007; Sagart, 2011).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*tʰe/
- Lhasa: /tʰe˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: tef
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /tʰe˥˥/
Verb[edit]
ཐེ • (the) (nominal form ཐེ་བ)
Noun[edit]
ཐེ • (the)
- Alternative form of ཐེའུ་རང (the'u rang, “type of demon”)
- Synonym: ཐེ་བྲང (the brang)
- seal, signet
- Synonym: ཐེ་མོ (the mo)
- suspicion, doubt
- Synonym: ཐེ་ཚོམ (the tshom)
References[edit]
- “ཐེ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.