Where does “ཡེ་ཤེས” come from?

ཡེ་ཤེས (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཤེས, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjəj — to know.

ཡེ་ཤེས (Tibetan): wisdom, awareness, knowledge

Definitions

  1. wisdom, awareness, knowledge

Ancestry of “ཡེ་ཤེས”, step by step

ཡེ་ཤེས traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཤེས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཤེསto know, to understand, to realise, to cognise
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*sjəjto know

via Tibetan ཡེ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཡེprimordial
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjəj →Every word from Tibetan ཤེས →