རྗེས་འཇུག་ཡི་གེ་
Transliteration: rjes 'jug yi ge
<phrase> "Suffix letter". Grammar term. One of the three types of consonant letter used in the construction of a Tibetan མིང་ grammatical name. See རྗེས་འཇུག་བཅུ་ "ten suffixes".
རྗེས་འཇུག་མ་ནིང་
Transliteration: rjes 'jug ma ning
<phrase> "Neutral suffix letter". Abbrev. of རྗེས་འཇུག་གི་མ་ནིང་ཡི་གེ་. The རྟགས་འཇུག་ Application of Gender Signs defines three of the རྗེས་འཇུག་ suffix letters as ཕོ་ཡིག་ neutral letters: ན་, ར་, and ལ་. The gender of the suffix has two effects: on the pronunciation; and on the function and meaning of the word it is in. Here are the complete details of the neutral suffixes effect on pronu…
རྗེས་འཇུག་
Transliteration: rjes 'jug
<noun> 1) form of རྗེས་སུ་འཇུག་པ་ q.v. "Suffix (letter)". For the suffix letters of Tibetan grammar, see རྗེས་འཇུག་བཅུ་ "the ten suffixes". 2) Noun form of རྗེས་སུ་འཇུག་པ་ meaning followers, etc.
རྗེས་འཇུག་ཕོ་ཡིག་
Transliteration: rjes 'jug pho yig
<phrase> "Male suffix letter". Abbrev. of རྗེས་འཇུག་གི་ཕོ་ཡིག་གེ་. The རྟགས་འཇུག་ Application of Gender Signs defines four of the རྗེས་འཇུག་ suffix letters as ཕོ་ཡིག་ male letters: ག་, ད་, བ་, and ས་. The gender of the suffix has two effects: on the pronunciation; and on the function and meaning of the word it is in. Here are the complete details of the male suffixes effect on pronunciation…
རྗེས་འཇུག་མོ་ཡིག་
Transliteration: rjes 'jug mo yig
<phrase> "Female suffix letter". Abbrev. of རྗེས་འཇུག་གི་མོ་ཡིག་གེ་. The རྟགས་འཇུག་ Application of Gender Signs defines three of the རྗེས་འཇུག་ suffix letters as མོ་ཡིག་ female letters: ང་, མ་, and འ་. The gender of the suffix has two effects: on the pronunciation; and on the function and meaning of the word it is in. Here are the complete details of the neutral suffixes effect on pronuncia…
སྔོན་འཇུག་ཡི་གེ་
Transliteration: sngon 'jug yi ge
"Prefix letter". Grammar term. One of the three types of consonant letter used in the construction of a Tibetan མིང་ grammatical name. See སྔོན་འཇུག་ལྔ་ "five prefixes". See also the verb phrase སྔོན་དུ་འཇུག་པ་ "to prefix".
རྗེས་འཇུག་བཅུ་
Transliteration: rjes 'jug bcu
<phrase> "The ten suffixes". Grammar term. Tibetan words are constructed of letters, which are of two types: vowels and consonants. Tibetan words by definition have consonant letters in one of three places: a main position called the མིང་གཞི་ name-base; a སྔོན་འཇུག་ prefix position to that name-base; and a suffix position to the name-base. Of the thirty consonants all can be used in the nam…
རྗེས་སུ་འཇུག་པ་
Transliteration: rjes su 'jug pa
I. <verb> v.i. see འཇུག་པ་ for tense forms. 1) To apply a letter in the suffix position of a word. Hence "to suffix". In Tibetan grammar, there are ten letters that can be placed as suffixes; see རྗེས་འཇུག་བཅུ་ "the ten suffixes". 2) "To begin to follow" or "to take up following after" someone or some system i.e., to enter into being a follower of someone, or an adherent of a lineage, teach…
