Where does “འབྲུག་ཡུལ” come from?

འབྲུག་ཡུལ (Dzongkha) comes from Dzongkha འབྲུག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m-bru(ŋ/k) — dragon; thunder.

Ancestry of “འབྲུག་ཡུལ”, step by step

འབྲུག་ཡུལ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Dzongkha འབྲུག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaའབྲུགdragon
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanm-bru(ŋ/k)dragon; thunder

via Dzongkha ཡུལ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaཡུལvillage, country
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m-bru(ŋ/k) →Every word from Dzongkha འབྲུག →