Where does “ཚེ་ཆུ” come from?

ཚེ་ཆུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཆུ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan tsju — water; liquid; bodily fluid; water, liquid, body...

ཚེ་ཆུ (Tibetan): elixir of life, amrita

Definitions

  1. elixir of life, amrita

Ancestry of “ཚེ་ཆུ”, step by step

ཚེ་ཆུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཆུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཆུwater; river
2Proto-Sino-Tibetantsjuwater; liquid; bodily fluid; water, liquid, body...

via Tibetan ཚེ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཚེtime; life
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