Where does “ས་དཀར” come from?

ས་དཀར (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ས, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa.

ས་དཀར (Tibetan): lime, whitewash, chalk

Definitions

  1. lime, whitewash, chalk

Ancestry of “ས་དཀར”, step by step

ས་དཀར traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསearth, land, soil, ground
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*s-grwa—

via Tibetan དཀར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanདཀར—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa →Every word from Tibetan ས →