Where does “རྣམ་ཤེས” come from?

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

རྣམ་ཤེས (Tibetan): consciousness, awareness, soul

Definitions

  1. consciousness, awareness, soul

Ancestry of “རྣམ་ཤེས”, step by step

རྣམ་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 རྣམ

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