Where does “ཨོ་ལེ་ཁ” come from?
ཨོ་ལེ་ཁ (Dzongkha) comes from Dzongkha ཁ — language; mouth; surface.
ཨོ་ལེ་ཁ (Dzongkha): the ʼOle language
Definitions
- the ʼOle language
Ancestry of “ཨོ་ལེ་ཁ”, step by step
ཨོ་ལེ་ཁ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dzongkha ཁ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dzongkha | ཁ | language; mouth; surface |
via Dzongkha ཨོ་ལེ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dzongkha | ཨོ་ལེ | the 'Ole tribe |