Where does “ས་ཡོམ” come from?

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

ས་ཡོམ (Tibetan): earthquake

Definitions

  1. earthquake

Ancestry of “ས་ཡོམ”, step by step

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

via Tibetan ས

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

via Tibetan ཡོམ

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