Where does “ཚོགས་ཞིང” come from?

ཚོགས་ཞིང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཞིང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-liŋ — field; forest.

ཚོགས་ཞིང (Tibetan): merit field, Refuge tree

Definitions

  1. merit field, Refuge tree

Ancestry of “ཚོགས་ཞིང”, step by step

ཚོགས་ཞིང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཞིང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཞིངfield, ground, farmland; region, country, sphere,...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanb-liŋfield; forest

via Tibetan ཚོགས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཚོགསaccumulation

Words derived from “ཚོགས་ཞིང”

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-liŋ →Every word from Tibetan ཞིང →