Where does “མོ་ཐོ” come from?
མོ་ཐོ (Tibetan) comes from Chinese 摩托, from English motor, from Middle English motour, from Latin motor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
མོ་ཐོ (Tibetan): motorcycle
Definitions
- motorcycle
Ancestry of “མོ་ཐོ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | 摩托 | motor; Short for 摩托車／摩托车 |
| 2 | English | motor | A machine or device that converts other energy... |
| 3 | Middle English | motour | — |
| 4 | Latin | motor | mover; that which moves something; first-person... |
| 5 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |