Where does “སྐེ་རིང་རྟ” come from?

སྐེ་རིང་རྟ (Dzongkha) comes from Tibetan རྟ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan rta — horse.

སྐེ་རིང་རྟ (Dzongkha): giraffe

Definitions

  1. giraffe

Ancestry of “སྐེ་རིང་རྟ”, step by step

སྐེ་རིང་རྟ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan རྟ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྟhorse; melody
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanrtahorse

via Dzongkha སྐེ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaསྐེneck
2Classical Tibetanསྐེ—

via Tibetan རིང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརིངto be tall, long; long
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan rta →Every word from Tibetan རྟ →