རྙེད

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s/r-ney-t (“to get, have, obtain”) (STEDT).

Cognate with Mizo nei, S'gaw Karen န့ၢ် (nay̱), Mara Chin hnēi.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rȵet/
• Lhasa: /ȵeː˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rȵet/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nyee^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵeː˥˨/

Verb

རྙེད • (rnyed) (nominal form རྙེད་པ)

1. (involuntary) to find, discover
2. to get, receive

Conjugation

Conjugation of རྙེད

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	རྙེད	rnyed
Future	བརྙེད རྙེད	brnyed rnyed
Past	བརྙེས བརྙེད རྙེད	brnyes brnyed rnyed
Imperative	རྙེས	rnyes

Derived terms

• རྙེད་བཀུར (rnyed bkur)

References

• “རྙེད” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.