Where does “རིག་འཛིན” come from?

རིག་འཛིན (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan འཛིན, from Tibetan ཟིན — to be finished; to draw near an end.

Ancestry of “རིག་འཛིན”, step by step

རིག་འཛིན traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan འཛིན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའཛིནto take hold of, to seize, to grasp; written...
2Tibetanཟིནto be finished; to draw near an end

via Tibetan བསྟན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབསྟནpast of སྟོན; future of སྟོན; teaching
Every word from Tibetan ཟིནEvery word from Tibetan འཛིན