Where does “གཏམས” come from?

གཏམས (Tibetan) comes from Sino-Tibetan *l-(t/d)jam.

གཏམས (Tibetan): to fill up, to fill, to make full; inflection of...

Definitions

  1. to fill up, to fill, to make full; inflection of...

Ancestry of “གཏམས”, step by step

གཏམས traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Sino-Tibetan *l-(t/d)jam

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sino-Tibetan*l-(t/d)jam

via Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-(t/d)jam

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetan*l-(t/d)jamfull
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *l-(t/d)jam