Where does “གཏོམ་པ” come from?

གཏོམ་པ (Tibetan) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tam — to talk, to speak.

Ancestry of “གཏོམ་པ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetan*tamto talk, to speak
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tam