Where does “ཁ་ལག་ཐོ” come from?

ཁ་ལག་ཐོ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཁ་ལག, from Tibetan ལག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mə-l(j)ək — to lick.

ཁ་ལག་ཐོ (Tibetan): menu

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Ancestry of “ཁ་ལག་ཐོ”, step by step

ཁ་ལག་ཐོ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཁ་ལག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཁ་ལགhand and mouth; face and arms
2Tibetanལགhand; arm
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*mə-l(j)əkto lick

via Tibetan ཐོ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཐོlist, note
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mə-l(j)ək →Every word from Tibetan ལག →Every word from Tibetan ཁ་ལག →