Where does “ཚེ་བརྟན” come from?

ཚེ་བརྟན (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཚེ — time; life.

Ancestry of “ཚེ་བརྟན”, step by step

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

via Tibetan ཚེ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཚེtime; life

via Tibetan བརྟན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབརྟན
Every word from Tibetan ཚེ