ལྕེ་གཉིས

Sikkimese

Etymology

By surface analysis, ལྕེ (lce, “tongue”) +‎ གཉིས (gnyis, “two”), literally “two-tongued”.

Adjective

ལྕེ་གཉིས (lce gnyis)

  1. two-tongued; deceitful, duplicitous

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 54
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