Where does “ཆམས་པ་ཕོག” come from?

ཆམས་པ་ཕོག (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཕག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan pʷak — pig.

ཆམས་པ་ཕོག (Tibetan): catch a cold

Definitions

  1. catch a cold

Ancestry of “ཆམས་པ་ཕོག”, step by step

ཆམས་པ་ཕོག traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཕག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཕགpig
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanpʷakpig

via Tibetan ཆམས་པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཆམས་པcommon cold
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan pʷak →Every word from Tibetan ཕག →