In the same way as certain English words are composed of a Greek root combined with a Latin root (e.g., “television”) Tibetan sometimes unites two different origins within a single word. Here are two examples:

• འཛམ་བུ་གླིང་ “The world.” From the Sanskrit jambu-dvīpa, the name of one of the seven continents around Mt. Meru, and གླིང་, Tibetan for “island” (dvīpa in Sanskrit).
• པཎ་ཆེན་ Title of the lama of Trashi Lhünpo, abbreviation of པནྜི་ཏ་ཆེན་པོ་. From Sanskrit paṇḍita and Tibetan ཆེན་པོ་ “great.”