Where does “ཁྱོད་ཅ་ང་ཅ་ཁ” come from?

ཁྱོད་ཅ་ང་ཅ་ཁ (Dzongkha) comes from Tibetan ང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ŋa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan l/b-ŋa — five.

ཁྱོད་ཅ་ང་ཅ་ཁ (Dzongkha): the Chocangaca language

Definitions

  1. the Chocangaca language

Ancestry of “ཁྱོད་ཅ་ང་ཅ་ཁ”, step by step

ཁྱོད་ཅ་ང་ཅ་ཁ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanངI
2Proto-Sino-TibetanŋaI
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanl/b-ŋafive

via Dzongkha ཁ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaཁlanguage; mouth; surface

via Dzongkha ཁྱོད

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaཁྱོདthou, you
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan l/b-ŋa →Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ŋa →Every word from Tibetan ང →