Where does “བརྒྱད་ཅུ” come from?

བརྒྱད་ཅུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan བརྒྱད, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-rjat — eight.

བརྒྱད་ཅུ (Tibetan): eighty

Definitions

  1. eighty

Ancestry of “བརྒྱད་ཅུ”, step by step

བརྒྱད་ཅུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan བརྒྱད

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབརྒྱདeight
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*pV-rjateight

via Tibetan ཅུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཅུten {{q|in compounds}}
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-rjat →Every word from Tibetan བརྒྱད →