ཇོ་ཇོ་བོ

Sikkimese

Etymology

By surface analysis, partial reduplication of ཇོ་བོ (jo bo). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ཇོ་ཇོ་བོ (jo jo bo)

  1. forefather, grandfather

References

  • Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 59