Where does “ཆུང་མ” come from?

ཆུང་མ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan མ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ma — no, not, negative, not have, none.

ཆུང་མ (Tibetan): wife, consort, partner

Definitions

  1. wife, consort, partner

Ancestry of “ཆུང་མ”, step by step

ཆུང་མ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanmother; goddess; negates the following verb in...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanmano, not, negative, not have, none

via Tibetan ཆུང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཆུངsmall
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan maEvery word from Tibetan