Where does “བི་ཆུ” come from?
བི་ཆུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཆུ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan tsju — water; liquid; bodily fluid; water, liquid, body...
བི་ཆུ (Tibetan): moss
Definitions
- moss
Ancestry of “བི་ཆུ”, step by step
བི་ཆུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan ཆུ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཆུ | water; river |
| 2 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | tsju | water; liquid; bodily fluid; water, liquid, body... |
via Tibetan བ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | བ | common suffix for adjectives, verbs and nouns;... |