Table of Tibetan prefixes and “name base”^† (root letter) combinations

མིང་གཞི་ལུ་སྔོན་འཇུག་ཐོབ་རེའུ་མིག།

†མིང་གཞིming gzhi - root letter; A term of grammar. Name-base. This is the letter which forms the basis of a name (Tibetan word = ming). It is one of the thirty consonants either alone or with modifications. It can be modified with one or more of the following additions to produce a name: a suffix, post-suffix, prefix, super-fix, sub-joined letter, or one of the four vowels. It is the letter upon which alphabetization is carried out. It is the only letter in a name (with a few exceptions) which can have a vowel sound joined to it. There can only be one name-base per name. (Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary).

Some Dzongkha words contain an additional name base or ming mtha' ( མིང་མཐའ་).