Tibetan GrammarTrübner, 1883 - 104 pages |
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... meanings of homonymous roots , e.g. ( 3 ) tón - pa ( tón - pa ) , teacher ; ( 3 ) tón - mo ( tón- mo ) , ‚ feast ... meaning can only be inferred from the context , or known from usage : ( from སྟོན་ མོ་ ) , name feast ( given on the ...
... meanings of homonymous roots , e.g. ( 3 ) tón - pa ( tón - pa ) , teacher ; ( 3 ) tón - mo ( tón- mo ) , ‚ feast ... meaning can only be inferred from the context , or known from usage : ( from སྟོན་ མོ་ ) , name feast ( given on the ...
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... meaning is obscured so much that it occurs even after known and definite subjects , where one would expect the demonstrative ( see f . i . Dzl . 25 , 1. 28 , 6. 128 , 14 ) . Chapter II . The Substantive . 14. The Number . The Plural is ...
... meaning is obscured so much that it occurs even after known and definite subjects , where one would expect the demonstrative ( see f . i . Dzl . 25 , 1. 28 , 6. 128 , 14 ) . Chapter II . The Substantive . 14. The Number . The Plural is ...
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... meaning : from among ) , all three like- wise without any discriminating regard to the ending of the noun . 7. The Terminative is expressed by the post- positions རུ་ or ར་ after vowels ; ཏ་ after fnal ག་ and བ་ and , in certain words ...
... meaning : from among ) , all three like- wise without any discriminating regard to the ending of the noun . 7. The Terminative is expressed by the post- positions རུ་ or ར་ after vowels ; ཏ་ after fnal ག་ and བ་ and , in certain words ...
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... meaning as , highland ' and , a high land ' in English . 17. Comparison . 1. Special endings , expressive of the different degrees of comparison , as in the Aryan languages , do not exist in Tibetan . There are two particles , however ...
... meaning as , highland ' and , a high land ' in English . 17. Comparison . 1. Special endings , expressive of the different degrees of comparison , as in the Aryan languages , do not exist in Tibetan . There are two particles , however ...
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... meaning of , more than ' , with the negative : , not more than ' , , only ; thus : ང་ལ་ སྲང་ གཉིས་ ལས་ ནི་ མི་ དགོས་ , more than two ounces I do not want ' ( cf. vulg . WT : མན་ ing but ་ , , only ་ , རི་ དྭགས་ ཤོར་བ་ ལས་ དགའ་བ་ མེད ...
... meaning of , more than ' , with the negative : , not more than ' , , only ; thus : ང་ལ་ སྲང་ གཉིས་ ལས་ ནི་ མི་ དགོས་ , more than two ounces I do not want ' ( cf. vulg . WT : མན་ ing but ་ , , only ་ , རི་ དྭགས་ ཤོར་བ་ ལས་ དགའ་བ་ མེད ...
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