Where does “དམག་འཁོར” come from?

དམག་འཁོར (Dzongkha) comes from Tibetan འཁོར, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-kwar.

དམག་འཁོར (Dzongkha): tank, armoured combat vehicle

Definitions

  1. tank, armoured combat vehicle

Ancestry of “དམག་འཁོར”, step by step

དམག་འཁོར traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan འཁོར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའཁོརto turn round, to rotate, to revolve, to spin, to...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*s/m-kwar—

via Dzongkha དམག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaདམག—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-kwar →Every word from Tibetan འཁོར →