ཅི

See also: ཅ and ཙ

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕi˥/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

ཅི (ci)

1. (suffixed to verbs) used to form the witnessed past tense (after orthographic endings other than ང or a vowel)

Related terms

• ཡི (yi)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun

ཅི (ci)

1. what (relative 3rd-person inanimate absolutive pronoun)

Sikkimese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tjak ~ g-t(j)ik (“one”).

Numeral

ཅི (ci)

1. one (1)

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕi/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕi˥˥/
• Batang: /tɕhɪ⁵³/
• Dêgê: /tɕi⁵³/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡ɕi/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ji^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕi˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /tɕhɪ⁵³/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /tɕi⁵³/

Pronoun

ཅི • (ci)

1. (interrogative) what
2. (relative) whatever
3. (relative) to the extent of

Derived terms

• ཅི་དགའ (ci dga')
• ཅི་དགུ (ci dgu)
• ཅི་འགྱུར (ci 'gyur)
• ཅི་ཅི་ཅིག (ci ci cig)
• ཅི་ཅི་མ་མ་ཀོ་ཀོ (ci ci ma ma ko ko)
• ཅི་ཆེ (ci che)
• ཅི་བྱེད (ci byed)

 

See also

• ག་རེ (ga re)