Where does “ཚོང་པ” come from?

ཚོང་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan པ — a nominalization suffix.

ཚོང་པ (Tibetan): merchant, businessperson

Definitions

  1. merchant, businessperson

Ancestry of “ཚོང་པ”, step by step

ཚོང་པ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetana nominalization suffix

via Tibetan ཚོང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཚོངsale, trade
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