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Where does “Shigatse” come from?

Shigatse (English) comes from Tibetan གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ, from Tibetan རྩེ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-tsjaːj — to play.

Ancestry of “Shigatse”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ—
2Tibetanརྩེto play, to frolic, to disport oneself; peak,...
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanr-tsjaːjto play
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