Where does “ཅང་མ་སེང” come from?

ཅང་མ་སེང (Kurtop) comes from Tibetan སེང, from Sanskrit सिंह, from Proto-Indo-Aryan sinźʰás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian sinȷ́ʰás, from Proto-Indo-European *sinǵʰós-.

Ancestry of “ཅང་མ་སེང”, step by step

ཅང་མ་སེང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan སེང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསེངlion
2Sanskritसिंहthe lion; the zodiacal sign Leo or its lagna;...
3Proto-Indo-Aryansinźʰás—
4Proto-Indo-Iraniansinȷ́ʰáslion
5Proto-Indo-European*sinǵʰós-—

via Kurtop ཅང་མ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kurtopཅང་མ—
2Proto-Sino-Tibetankraŋmosquito
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanglaŋox; elephant; poplar
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sinǵʰós- →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian sinȷ́ʰás →Every word from Proto-Indo-Aryan sinźʰás →