Where does “ལོག་ཤེས” come from?

ལོག་ཤེས (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ལག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mə-l(j)ək — to lick.

ལོག་ཤེས (Tibetan): wrong consciousness, error, fallacy, misapprehension, misinterpretation, delusion

Definitions

  1. wrong consciousness, error, fallacy, misapprehension, misinterpretation, delusion

Ancestry of “ལོག་ཤེས”, step by step

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

via Tibetan ལག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanལགhand; arm
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*mə-l(j)əkto lick

via Tibetan ཤེས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཤེསto know, to understand, to realise, to cognise
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*sjəjto know
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mə-l(j)ək →Every word from Tibetan ལག →