Where does “lahs” come from?

lahs (Middle High German) comes from Old High German lahs, from Proto-West Germanic lahs, from Proto-Germanic lahsaz, from Chinese 拉薩, from Tibetan ལྷ་ས, from Old Tibetan ར་ས.

Ancestry of “lahs”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanlahs—
2Proto-West Germaniclahssalmon
3Proto-Germaniclahsazsalmon
4Chinese拉薩—
5Tibetanལྷ་སLhasa
6Old Tibetanར་ས—

Words derived from “lahs”

Every word from Old Tibetan ར་ས →Every word from Tibetan ལྷ་ས →Every word from Chinese 拉薩 →