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This usage with duplicated (root of the) words is mentioned in Tibetan grammar texts. H. Stoddard and N. Tournadre[1] give ཉི་མ་གསལ་ཡང་གསལ། "the sun is very bright" and རྒྱལ་ཁ་ཐོབ་ཀྱང་ཐོབ། "[I] will certainly win".
(At this point I'm still wait for an encounter with this kind of duplication outside of a grammar texts.)
Topic, reverential, pleonastic or meter-filler
to arise
v.i.
ཐ་མི་དད་པ་
སྐྱེས་པ།
སྐྱེ་བ།
སྐྱེ་བ།
past
pres.
fut.
imp.
ཁྱད་པར་དུ་ཡང་སྙིང་རྗེ་སྐྱེ།
particularly compassion arise
compassion arises especially for...
དེ་ཡང་ / དེའང་
that
with regard to that, in this regard; furthermore, moreover
Distributive
སྣང་ཡང་སེམས།་་་ སྟོང་ཡང་སེམས་ཡིན།
appearance mind empty mind is
Appearance is mind, and emptiness is mind as well.
to get, to obtain
v.t.(!)
ཐ་མི་དད་པ་(!)
ཐོབ་པ།
འཐོབ་པ།
འཐོབ་པ།
past
pres.
fut.
imp.
མག་པས་བག་མ་མཛེས་པ་ཡང་ཐོབ། རིན་ཆེན་མང་པོ་ཡང་ཐོབ།
bridegroom bride beautiful got jewel many got
The bridegroom [not only] got a beautiful bride, [but] also many jewels.
cause in accord result if human born life short illness many become
[Regarding] the result resembling the cause, even if one is born as [a] human, the lifespan will be short and the illnesses many.
སྤྱིར་མང་ན་ཡང་་་
generally many
Even though (there are) generally many,...
After the verb with a pronoun before verb
The uniques of this structure is, that it is rather translated as if the ཀྱང་ would come with the pronoun before the verb than with the verb itself. E.g., rather ལས་ཅི་ལ་ཐུག་ཀྱང་ "whatever karma [I] met" than "even [when] meeting with what[ever] karma".
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