Where does “lahsaz” come from?

lahsaz (Proto-Germanic) comes from Chinese 拉薩, from Tibetan ལྷ་ས, from Old Tibetan ར་ས.

lahsaz (Proto-Germanic): salmon

Definitions

  1. salmon

Ancestry of “lahsaz”, step by step

lahsaz traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Chinese 拉薩

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese拉薩—
2Tibetanལྷ་སLhasa
3Old Tibetanར་ས—

via Proto-Indo-European laḱs-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanlaḱs-salmon, trout

Words derived from “lahsaz”

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