Where does “མཆེན་པོ” come from?

མཆེན་པོ (Sikkimese) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m-sin — liver; bitter; bile.

མཆེན་པོ (Sikkimese): liver

Definitions

  1. liver

Ancestry of “མཆེན་པོ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetanm-sinliver; bitter; bile
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m-sin