ཐེ

Tibetan

Etymology

Has been connected to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *teɣ (“God”); compare Chinese 帝 (OC *teːɡs, “God of Heaven”), 禘 (OC *deːɡs, “a kind of sacrifice”), Jingpho [script needed] (mə³¹-tai³³, “god of the sky”), Proto-Bodo-Garo *mɯ-Dai⁴ (“spirit; god”) (Coblin, 1986; Schuessler, 2007; Sagart, 2011).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*tʰe/
• Lhasa: /tʰe˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*tʰe/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: te^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰe˥˥/

Verb

ཐེ • (the) (nominal form ཐེ་བ)

1. belong to, be a part of

Noun

ཐེ • (the)

1. Alternative form of ཐེའུ་རང (the'u rang, “type of demon”)

   Synonym: ཐེ་བྲང (the brang)

2. seal, signet

   Synonym: ཐེ་མོ (the mo)

3. suspicion, doubt

   Synonym: ཐེ་ཚོམ (the tshom)

References

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