Where does “ཚེས་བཅུ” come from?
ཚེས་བཅུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan བཅུ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj — ten.
Ancestry of “ཚེས་བཅུ”, step by step
ཚེས་བཅུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan བཅུ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | བཅུ | ten; future of འཆུ |
| 2 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj | ten |
via Tibetan ཚེས
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཚེས | date, day of the month |