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 པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཔa nominalization suffix

via Tibetan ཚོང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཚོངsale, trade
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