Where does “ཁྱིམ་ཚང” come from?

ཁྱིམ་ཚང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཁྱིམ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qim — house.

ཁྱིམ་ཚང (Tibetan): family

Definitions

  1. family

Ancestry of “ཁྱིམ་ཚང”, step by step

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

via Tibetan ཁྱིམ

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

via Tibetan ཚང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཚངhome, abode
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qim →Every word from Tibetan ཁྱིམ →