Where does “བཞི་པ” come from?

བཞི་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan བཞི, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-lij — four.

བཞི་པ (Tibetan): fourth

Definitions

  1. fourth

Ancestry of “བཞི་པ”, step by step

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

via Tibetan བཞི

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབཞིfour
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*pV-lijfour

via Tibetan པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཔa nominalization suffix
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-lij →Every word from Tibetan བཞི →