Where does “རྒྱ་མཚོ” come from?
རྒྱ་མཚོ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan རྒྱ, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman r-gya-n.
རྒྱ་མཚོ (Tibetan): sea, ocean
Definitions
- sea, ocean
Ancestry of “རྒྱ་མཚོ”, step by step
རྒྱ་མཚོ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan རྒྱ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | རྒྱ | extent, size, area, width; vastness,... |
| 2 | Proto-Tibeto-Burman | r-gya-n | — |
via Tibetan མཚོ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | མཚོ | lake, ocean; whorls of a fingerprint |