Where does “ཨ་ཝ་གླང” come from?

ཨ་ཝ་གླང (Dzongkha) comes from Tibetan གླང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan glaŋ — ox; elephant; poplar.

ཨ་ཝ་གླང (Dzongkha): beetle

Definitions

  1. beetle

Ancestry of “ཨ་ཝ་གླང”, step by step

ཨ་ཝ་གླང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གླང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགླངox
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanglaŋox; elephant; poplar

via Dzongkha ཨ་ཝ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaཨ་ཝexcrement, feces
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