Where does “ཤེས་བྱ” come from?

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

ཤེས་བྱ (Tibetan): knowledge

Definitions

  1. knowledge

Ancestry of “ཤེས་བྱ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཤེསto know, to understand, to realise, to cognise
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*sjəjto know
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjəj →Every word from Tibetan ཤེས →
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