Where does “གཅེས་མིང” come from?

གཅེས་མིང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan མིང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-meŋ — name.

གཅེས་མིང (Tibetan): nickname

Definitions

  1. nickname

Ancestry of “གཅེས་མིང”, step by step

གཅེས་མིང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan མིང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམིངname, designation; word, term
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*r-meŋname

via Tibetan གཅེས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཅེས—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-meŋ →Every word from Tibetan མིང →