Where does “ཆིག་སྒྲིལ” come from?

ཆིག་སྒྲིལ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གཅིག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-tek — one.

ཆིག་སྒྲིལ (Tibetan): solidarity, unity

Definitions

  1. solidarity, unity

Ancestry of “ཆིག་སྒྲིལ”, step by step

ཆིག་སྒྲིལ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གཅིག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཅིགone
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*kV-tekone

via Tibetan སྒྲིལ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྒྲིལto roll
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-tek →Every word from Tibetan གཅིག →