Where does “ཚེ་སྲོག” come from?

ཚེ་སྲོག (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan སྲོག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan srwak — life.

ཚེ་སྲོག (Tibetan): life, human life, lifespan

Definitions

  1. life, human life, lifespan

Ancestry of “ཚེ་སྲོག”, step by step

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

via Tibetan སྲོག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྲོགlife
2Proto-Sino-Tibetansrwaklife

via Tibetan ཚེ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཚེtime; life
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan srwak →Every word from Tibetan སྲོག →