ཉན

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Verb

ཉན (nyan)

To obey, to comply.

References

Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 61

Tibetan

Etymology

From Classical Tibetan མཉནད (mnyand, “to listen”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nyan (“to hear; to listen”). Cognate with Chinese 認 / 认 (rèn, “to recognize”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ȵan/
Lhasa: /ȵɛ̃˩˨/
Batang: /ȵɛ̃˩˧/
Dêgê: /ȵen˩˧/
Zêkog: /ȵan/
Bla-Brang: /ȵan/
Arik: /ȵan/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ȵan/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nyaen^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵɛ̃˩˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ȵɛ̃˩˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ȵen˩˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ȵan/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ȵan/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /ȵan/

Verb

ཉན • (nyan) (nominal form ཉན་པ)

(with dative) to listen
(with dative) to obey

Conjugation

Conjugation of ཉན (nyan) (Classical Tibetan)
present	ཉན (nyan)
future	ཉན (nyan)
past	ཉནད (nyand)
imperative	ཉོནད (nyond)

Derived terms

ཉན་བྱེད་འཕྲུལ་ཆས (nyan byed 'phrul chas)