Where does “དཀྱིལ་འཁོར” come from?

དཀྱིལ་འཁོར (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan འཁོར, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-kwar.

དཀྱིལ་འཁོར (Tibetan): magic circle, mandala (Sanskrit)

Definitions

  1. magic circle, mandala (Sanskrit)

Ancestry of “དཀྱིལ་འཁོར”, step by step

དཀྱིལ་འཁོར traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan འཁོར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའཁོརto turn round, to rotate, to revolve, to spin, to...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*s/m-kwar—

via Tibetan དཀྱིལ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanདཀྱིལcentre, center
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-kwar →Every word from Tibetan འཁོར →