Where does “གནམ་གྲུ་འབུཔ” come from?

གནམ་གྲུ་འབུཔ (Dzongkha) comes from Tibetan གནམ་གྲུ, from Tibetan གནམ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-nam — sky, sun.

གནམ་གྲུ་འབུཔ (Dzongkha): dragonfly

Definitions

  1. dragonfly

Ancestry of “གནམ་གྲུ་འབུཔ”, step by step

གནམ་གྲུ་འབུཔ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གནམ་གྲུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགནམ་གྲུaeroplane, airplane, plane
2Tibetanགནམsky; air, weather
3Proto-Sino-Tibetang-namsky, sun

via Dzongkha འབུཔ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaའབུཔinsect
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-nam →Every word from Tibetan གནམ →Every word from Tibetan གནམ་གྲུ →