Where does “སུ་ཁྱིམ” come from?

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

Ancestry of “སུ་ཁྱིམ”, step by step

སུ་ཁྱིམ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan སུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསུwho
2Proto-Sino-Tibetansu ~ s-luwho; indefinite pronoun; remote third-person...

via Tibetan ཁྱིམ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཁྱིམhouse, residence, home, household; See ཁྱིམ་ཐབས
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*qimhouse

Words derived from “སུ་ཁྱིམ

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan su ~ s-luEvery word from Tibetan སུ