English
tummo
Tummo comes from Tibetan གཏུམ་མོ.
- Tibetanmodernགཏུམ་མོliterally ‘fierce woman’
- Englishearliest quotation 2008tummo
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Tibetanmodernགཏུམ་མོliterally ‘fierce woman’
- Englishearliest quotation 2008tummo
Earliest quotation: 2008, Celia Mcgee, He’s Hauling in the Visitors by Livening Up the Events: “Following a 72-minute immersion in ice in front of…”
The story
Borrowed from Tibetan གཏུམ་མོ (gtum mo, literally “fierce woman”).
Every English word from Tibetan གཏུམ་མོ
Today it means
noun A Tibetan Buddhist discipline supposed to create heat in the body.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Tibetan གཏུམ་མོ / tummo