Where does “” come from?

地 (Chinese) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-lej — earth.

Ancestry of “”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetan*mV-lejearth

Words derived from “

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-lej
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