January 05, 2012

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  1. DW,

    Among my favorite examples is this one, that comes in different spellings in early (pre-Mongol period) works:

    twal-gyis.
    tol-gyis.
    And I've seen one example of the spelling thol-gyis.

    I think all three of these mean abruptly or suddenly.

    Also, tur-gyis, which seems to mean clearly or vividly.

    There are mer-gyis, tsen-gyis, tsher-gyis, wal-gyis, zul-gyis, har-gyis etc.

    I get the impression that this way of making adverbs was more common in earlier times, although of course they do still appear. I also wondered if you know of another example that works like rim-gyis-pa?

    Yours,

    D.

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  3. What about lam gyis?

    T.T.

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  4. Dear Dan,

    So sorry that the changes that I made barred you from posting your comments. I posted them here (under anonymous). I shall revise my list above by adding your contributions. The only other example I know of seems to be mthar gyis pa.

    Thanks again.

    D.

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  5. Dear TT, dear Dan,

    I added:

    1. lam gyis
    2. wal gyis
    3. mer gyis “to the brim”?

    For the rest, I shall wait a while.

    D.

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