ཚེ

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t̪͡sʰé]

Etymology 1

Cognates include Dzongkha ཚེ (tshe) and Tibetan ཚེ (tshe).

Noun

ཚེ (tshe)

  1. life

Etymology 2

Cognates include Dzongkha ཚེས (tshes) and Tibetan ཚེས (tshes)

Noun

ཚེ (tshe)

  1. date, day of the month

Etymology 3

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

Verb

ཚེ (tshe)

  1. (transitive) to lump
  2. (transitive) to solidify
Conjugation
Conjugation of ཚེ (tshe)
affirmative negative I negative II
unmarked ཚེ (tshe) མ́་ཚེ ('matshe) མེ́་ཚེ ('metshe)
prospective ཚེ་ཀི་ན (tshekina) མ́་ཚེ་ཀི་ན ('matshekina) མེ́་ཚེ་ཀི་ན ('metshekina)
perfective I ཚེ་ས་ར (tshesara) མ́་ཚེ་ས་ར ('matshesara) མེ́་ཚེ་ས་ར ('metshesara)
II ཚེ་མུ (tshemu)
III ཚེ་ན (tshena) མ́་ཚེ་ན ('matshena) མེ́་ཚེ་ན ('metshena)
IV ཚེ་ཤང (tsheshang) མ́་ཚེ་ཤང ('matsheshang) མེ́་ཚེ་ཤང ('metsheshang)
V ཚེ་ས་ལ (tshesala) མ́་ཚེ་ས་ལ ('matshesala) མེ́་ཚེ་ས་ལ ('metshesala)
mirative ཚེ་ན (tshena) མ́་ཚེ་ན ('matshena) མེ́་ཚེ་ན ('metshena)
imperfective egophoric ཚེ་ཏ་ཀི (tshetaki) མ́་ཚེ་ཏ་ཀི ('matshetaki) མེ́་ཚེ་ཏ་ཀི ('metshetaki)
non-egophoric ཚེ་ཏ (tsheta) མ́་ཚེ་ཏ ('matsheta) མེ́་ཚེ་ཏ ('metsheta)
infinitive ཚེ་རོ (tshero)

Etymology 4

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

Conjunction

ཚེ (tshe)

  1. so, then

References

  • G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 169
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 60

Ladakhi

Noun

ཚེ (tshe)

  1. life

Sherpa

Etymology

Cognate with Tshangla [script needed] (tʂoʔ).

Noun

ཚེ (tshe)

  1. life

References

  • Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Noun

ཚེ • (tshe)

  1. time
  2. life

Derived terms