མེད

Various theories exist:

• From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-miːt (“to extinguish; to shut abruptly; to wink; to blink; to die”). Cognate with Chinese 滅 (OC *med, “to perish; to be destroyed; to destroy”) (Benedict, 1972).
• Contraction of མི (mi, “not”) + ཡོད (yod, “to be”) (Jäschke, 1881).
• Contraction of མི (mi, “not”) + རེད (red, “to be; to be ready”). The latter is related to སྲིད་པ (srid pa, “existence; state of being; living”) (Matisoff, 1985).

མེད • (med) (nominal form མེད་པ)

1. to be not, to exist not

   རྒྱ་ལ་མེད་པའི་ཡི་གེ་དྲུག ― rgya la med pa'i yi ge drug ― six letters not found in Sanskrit

• ཆར་མེད (char med, “drought; literally, rainlessness”)
• རིས་མེད (ris med)