DICTIONARY

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nges pa’i tshig

Dictionary Definition: 

[tenses]
  • nges
  • tshig

[translation-san] {L,MSA} nirukti

[translation-san] {C} nirukti-pratisaṃvid

[translation-san] {C} sunirukta

[translation-san] {MSA} nirukta

[translation-san] {MSA} nirvacana

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} creative etymology; contextual etymology

[translation-eng] {C} grammatical analysis; analytical knowledge of a language; well-analyzed (grammatically)

[comments] Comment: This type of etymology is usually done by creatively adding (bsnan), changing (phyis), and/or deleting (phyis) letters, whereas such is usually not done in a stricter etymology (sgra bshad).