Where does “མི་གཤིས” come from?

མི་གཤིས (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan མི, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-mi(j)-n — man, person, human being.

མི་གཤིས (Tibetan): character, personality (of a human being)

Definitions

  1. character, personality (of a human being)

Ancestry of “མི་གཤིས”, step by step

མི་གཤིས traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan མི

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམིperson, human being, man; not, un-
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanr-mi(j)-nman, person, human being

via Tibetan གཤིས་ཀ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཤིས་ཀnature
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-mi(j)-n →Every word from Tibetan མི →