Where does “མཁན་པོ” come from?
མཁན་པོ (Tibetan) comes from Sanskrit उपाध्याय, from Sanskrit उप, from Proto-Indo-European upó, from Proto-Indo-European h₃ewp-.
མཁན་པོ (Tibetan): khenpo
Ancestry of “མཁན་པོ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Sanskrit | उपाध्याय | — |
| 2 | Sanskrit | उप | therefore, moreover; towards; near |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |
Words derived from “མཁན་པོ”