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
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | སུ | who |
| 2 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | su ~ s-lu | who; indefinite pronoun; remote third-person... |
via Tibetan ཁྱིམ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཁྱིམ | house, residence, home, household; See ཁྱིམ་ཐབས |
| 2 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | *qim | house |
Words derived from “སུ་ཁྱིམ”