Where does “ཀུན་མཁྱེན” come from?

ཀུན་མཁྱེན (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan མཁྱེན, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ken — to see.

Ancestry of “ཀུན་མཁྱེན”, step by step

ཀུན་མཁྱེན traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan མཁྱེན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམཁྱེནto know, to comprehend, to understand, to cognise
2Proto-Sino-Tibetankento see

via Tibetan ཀུན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཀུནall, every, each
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan(m-)kulall; twenty
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ken →Every word from Tibetan མཁྱེན →