Where does “ཀྲོ་མ་ཀྲུ” come from?

ཀྲོ་མ་ཀྲུ (Tibetan) comes from English tomato, from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomātl, from Proto-Nahuan *toma- — tomatillo.

ཀྲོ་མ་ཀྲུ (Tibetan): tomato

Definitions

  1. tomato

Ancestry of “ཀྲོ་མ་ཀྲུ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtomatoA widely cultivated plant, "Solanum...
2Spanishtomatetomato; tomatillo; hole
3Classical Nahuatltomātltomato
4Proto-Nahuan*toma-tomatillo
Every word from Proto-Nahuan *toma- →Every word from Classical Nahuatl tomātl →Every word from Spanish tomate →