གཅིག་

གཅིག (Wyl. gcig ) Pron.: chik

• Skt. एकः, eka, Pron.: eka. From Sanskrit: ¹#{i}¨Uṇ. iii, 43 | probably fr. a base | •Zd.: ae-va | •Gk., •Goth.: ai-n-s: aequu-s | 200 | one | or | with | preceding or following, no one, nobody | the words | or | are used before decade numerals to lessen them by one | twenty-nine | with and without | alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only (frequently | the same, one and the same, identical | one of two or many | - | - | the one - the other | •esp. | some | - | some - others | repeated twice, either as a compound | or uncompounded, may have the sense 'one and one', 'one by one' | single of its kind, unique, singular, chief, pre-eminent, excellent | sincere, truthful | little, small | a, an | (the fem. of | before a Taddhita suffix and as first member of a compound is | not | N. of a teacher | of a son of Raya [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW