གཉིས

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Dzongkha

Dzongkha cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : གཉིས (gnyis)
    Ordinal : གཉིས་པ (gnyis pa)
    Adverbial : ཚར་གཉིས (tshar gnyis)
    Multiplier : ལོག་བལྟབ (log bltab)
    Collective : (cha)
    Fractional : ཕྱེད (phyed)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s (two).

Pronunciation

Numeral

གཉིས (gnyis)

  1. two (2)

Ladakhi

Numeral

གཉིས (gnyis)

  1. two

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s.

Numeral

གཉིས (gnyis) (Devanagari spelling गञिस)

  1. two

References

  • Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Tibetan numbers (edit)
20
 ←  1 2 3  → 
    Cardinal: གཉིས (gnyis)
    Ordinal: གཉིས་པ (gnyis pa)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s.

Pronunciation


Numeral

གཉིས (gnyis)

  1. two