Where does “བཅུ་པ” come from?

བཅུ་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan བཅུ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj — ten.

བཅུ་པ (Tibetan): tenth

Definitions

  1. tenth

Ancestry of “བཅུ་པ”, step by step

བཅུ་པ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan བཅུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབཅུten; future of འཆུ
2Proto-Sino-Tibetants(j)i(j) ~ tsjajten

via Tibetan པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཔa nominalization suffix
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj →Every word from Tibetan བཅུ →