Where does “ཁའུ་ཏི” come from?

ཁའུ་ཏི (Kurtop) comes from Kurtop ཁ་ཝ, from Proto-Turkic KAk- — to hit, knock, tear.

Ancestry of “ཁའུ་ཏི”, step by step

ཁའུ་ཏི traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Kurtop ཁ་ཝ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kurtopཁ་ཝ
2Proto-TurkicKAk-to hit, knock, tear

via Kurtop ཏི

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kurtopཏི
Every word from Proto-Turkic KAk-Every word from Kurtop ཁ་ཝ