Where does “སེམས་ཅན” come from?

སེམས་ཅན (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan སེམས, from Proto-Mon-Khmer səm.

སེམས་ཅན (Tibetan): animal, creature, being

Definitions

  1. animal, creature, being

Ancestry of “སེམས་ཅན”, step by step

སེམས་ཅན traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan སེམས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསེམསto think, to consider; to fancy, to imagine;...
2Proto-Mon-Khmersəm

via Tibetan ཅན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཅནendowed with; having; possessing; being provided with (similar to english -ous, -y, -ly, -ful, -like, -ish, etc.)
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer səmEvery word from Tibetan སེམས