Where does “སྦྱིན་བདག” come from?

སྦྱིན་བདག (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan སྦྱིན, from Sino-Tibetan *Pi(k).

སྦྱིན་བདག (Tibetan): almsgiver

Definitions

  1. almsgiver

Ancestry of “སྦྱིན་བདག”, step by step

སྦྱིན་བདག traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan སྦྱིན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྦྱིནto give, to bestow, to contribute, to offer, to...
2Sino-Tibetan*Pi(k)—

via Tibetan བདག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanབདགI, self
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