Where does “གཏམ་བཟང” come from?

གཏམ་བཟང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གཏམ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-(t/d)am — to talk; to speak.

གཏམ་བཟང (Tibetan): good news

Definitions

  1. good news

Ancestry of “གཏམ་བཟང”, step by step

གཏམ་བཟང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གཏམ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཏམspeech, talk, conversation; news, information; to...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetang-(t/d)amto talk; to speak

via Tibetan བཟང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབཟངrighteous, good
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-(t/d)amEvery word from Tibetan གཏམ
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