Where does “གཏམ་རྒྱུད” come from?

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

གཏམ་རྒྱུད (Tibetan): legend

Definitions

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Ancestry of “གཏམ་རྒྱུད”, step by step

གཏམ་རྒྱུད 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 རྒྱུད

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྒྱུདstring
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-(t/d)am →Every word from Tibetan གཏམ →