Where does “ཆོས་འབྱོར” come from?

ཆོས་འབྱོར (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan འབྱོར, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan bjar ~ pjar — to affix, to plait, to sew, to braid.

Ancestry of “ཆོས་འབྱོར”, step by step

ཆོས་འབྱོར traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan འབྱོར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའབྱོརto stick, to adhere to, to take, to contract; to...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanbjar ~ pjarto affix, to plait, to sew, to braid

via Tibetan ཆོས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཆོསreligion; scripture, classic; dharma
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan bjar ~ pjarEvery word from Tibetan འབྱོར