Where does “བསྡུ་ཚིག” come from?

བསྡུ་ཚིག (Dzongkha) comes from Dzongkha བསྡུ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t/d)u-n/t.

བསྡུ་ཚིག (Dzongkha): abbreviation

Definitions

  1. abbreviation

Ancestry of “བསྡུ་ཚིག”, step by step

བསྡུ་ཚིག traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Dzongkha བསྡུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaབསྡུto collect, to accumulate
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*(t/d)u-n/t—

via Dzongkha ཚིག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaཚིགword
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t/d)u-n/t →Every word from Dzongkha བསྡུ →