Where does “ཁྱིམ་རྒྱུད” come from?

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

ཁྱིམ་རྒྱུད (Tibetan): family; clan, lineage

Definitions

  1. family; clan, lineage

Ancestry of “ཁྱིམ་རྒྱུད”, step by step

ཁྱིམ་རྒྱུད 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 རྒྱུད

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྒྱུདstring
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qim →Every word from Tibetan ཁྱིམ →