Where does “ཟོང་ཁ” come from?

ཟོང་ཁ (Kurtop) comes from Dzongkha རྫོང་ཁ, from Dzongkha རྫོང — jong; province, district.

Ancestry of “ཟོང་ཁ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaརྫོང་ཁDzongkha
2Dzongkhaརྫོངjong; province, district
Every word from Dzongkha རྫོང →Every word from Dzongkha རྫོང་ཁ →