Where does “རི” come from?

རི (Dzongkha) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ri — mountain.

རི (Dzongkha): hill, (portion of) a mountain below the tree line

Definitions

  1. hill, (portion of) a mountain below the tree line

Ancestry of “རི”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetanrimountain
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ri
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