Where does “ཁོལ་མོ” come from?

ཁོལ་མོ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan མོ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mow — woman; female relative.

ཁོལ་མོ (Tibetan): female servant, slave girl

Definitions

  1. female servant, slave girl

Ancestry of “ཁོལ་མོ”, step by step

ཁོལ་མོ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan མོ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམོfemale; she
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanmowwoman; female relative

via Tibetan ཁོལ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཁོལslave, servant
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mow →Every word from Tibetan མོ →