Where does “ཕེལ་ཀེ” come from?
ཕེལ་ཀེ (Kurtop) comes from Tibetan ཕལ་སྐད, from Tibetan སྐད, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m/s-k(w)a-j — mouth; opening; mouth; opening; spread; door;...
Ancestry of “ཕེལ་ཀེ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཕལ་སྐད | colloquial language, vernacular language, demotic |
| 2 | Tibetan | སྐད | language; speech |
| 3 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | m/s-k(w)a-j | mouth; opening; mouth; opening; spread; door;... |