Where does “ལྷོ་མཚམས་པ” come from?
ལྷོ་མཚམས་པ (Dzongkha) comes from Tibetan ལ, from Maharastri Prakrit 𑀅, from Sanskrit च, from Proto-Indo-Iranian -ča, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.
ལྷོ་མཚམས་པ (Dzongkha): Lhotshampa person
Definitions
- Lhotshampa person
Ancestry of “ལྷོ་མཚམས་པ”, step by step
ལྷོ་མཚམས་པ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan ལ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ལ | hillside, mountain pass; Marks oblique locatives;... |
| 2 | Maharastri Prakrit | 𑀅 | and; also, moreover |
| 3 | Sanskrit | च | and, both, also, moreover, as well as |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | -ča | and |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
via Dzongkha པ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dzongkha | པ | The thirteenth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet |
via Dzongkha མཚམས
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dzongkha | མཚམས | border, frontier, boundary |