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
- animal, creature, being
Ancestry of “སེམས་ཅན”, step by step
སེམས་ཅན traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan སེམས
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | སེམས | to think, to consider; to fancy, to imagine;... |
| 2 | Proto-Mon-Khmer | səm | — |
via Tibetan ཅན
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཅན | endowed with; having; possessing; being provided with (similar to english -ous, -y, -ly, -ful, -like, -ish, etc.) |