Where does “Sikkim” come from?

Sikkim (English) comes from Sikkimese སུ་ཁྱིམ, from Tibetan སུ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan su ~ s-lu — who; indefinite pronoun; remote third-person...

Ancestry of “Sikkim”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sikkimeseསུ་ཁྱིམ—
2Tibetanསུwho
3Proto-Sino-Tibetansu ~ s-luwho; indefinite pronoun; remote third-person...

Words derived from “Sikkim”

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan su ~ s-lu →Every word from Tibetan སུ →Every word from Sikkimese སུ་ཁྱིམ →