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Tibetan
Etymology
Has been linked to ཤེས (shes, “to know, understand”) with a nominalizing circumfix; compare གཉེན (gnyen, “friend, relative”) and ཉེ་བ (nye ba, “near, dear”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
གཤེན • (gshen)
- the clan of the founder of Bon
- (Bon) shaman, priest
- Synonym: བོན་པོ (bon po)
References
- ^ Guillaume Jacques (2019 July 19) “Tibétain gɕen”, in Panchronica (in French), Paris, →ISSN, →OCLC