Where does “རྟ་ཁེབས” come from?

རྟ་ཁེབས (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan རྟ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan rta — horse.

རྟ་ཁེབས (Tibetan): horse blanket

Definitions

  1. horse blanket

Ancestry of “རྟ་ཁེབས”, step by step

རྟ་ཁེབས traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan རྟ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྟhorse; melody
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanrtahorse

via Tibetan ཁེབས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཁེབས—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan rta →Every word from Tibetan རྟ →