Where does “ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ” come from?

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

ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ (Tibetan): Dalai Lama

Definitions

  1. Dalai Lama

Ancestry of “ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ”, step by step

ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan བླ་མ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབླ་མlama - an accomplished spiritual teacher, guru
2Tibetanམmother; goddess; negates the following verb in...
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanmano, not, negative, not have, none

via Mongolian ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Mongolianᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢocean; brine, deep; dereliction

Words derived from “ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ”

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ma →Every word from Tibetan མ →Every word from Tibetan བླ་མ →