Where does “ཐམ་པ” come from?

ཐམ་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གཏམ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-(t/d)am — to talk; to speak.

ཐམ་པ (Tibetan): full, complete; particle used with numbers that...

Definitions

  1. full, complete; particle used with numbers that...

Ancestry of “ཐམ་པ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཏམspeech, talk, conversation; news, information; to...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetang-(t/d)amto talk; to speak
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-(t/d)am →Every word from Tibetan གཏམ →