Where does “དཔྱིད་ཀ” come from?
དཔྱིད་ཀ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཀ, from Pali 𑀓, from Sanskrit कः, from Sanskrit किम्, from Proto-Indo-Aryan kás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian kás, from Proto-Indo-European kʷós — who.
དཔྱིད་ཀ (Tibetan): spring, springtime
Definitions
- spring, springtime
Ancestry of “དཔྱིད་ཀ”, step by step
དཔྱིད་ཀ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan ཀ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཀ | The first letter of the Tibetan abugida |
| 2 | Pali | 𑀓 | Brahmi script form of ka |
| 3 | Sanskrit | कः | nominative masculine singular of किम् |
| 4 | Sanskrit | किम् | used as a particle of interrogation |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | kás | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | kás | who |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷós | who |
via Tibetan དཔྱིད
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | དཔྱིད | spring |