Where does “བཞི་བཅུ” come from?

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

བཞི་བཅུ (Tibetan): forty

Definitions

  1. forty

Ancestry of “བཞི་བཅུ”, step by step

བཞི་བཅུ 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 བཞི

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབཞིfour
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*pV-lijfour
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj →Every word from Tibetan བཅུ →