Where does “ཉེས་པ་གསུམ” come from?

ཉེས་པ་གསུམ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གསུམ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-sum — three.

ཉེས་པ་གསུམ (Tibetan): the three humors; the three faults

Definitions

  1. the three humors; the three faults

Ancestry of “ཉེས་པ་གསུམ”, step by step

ཉེས་པ་གསུམ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གསུམ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགསུམthree
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*kV-sumthree

via Tibetan ཉེས་པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཉེས་པevil
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-sum →Every word from Tibetan གསུམ →