Where does “གངས་ཤུར་མོ་ཊ” come from?

གངས་ཤུར་མོ་ཊ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan མོ་ཊ, from English motor, from Middle English motour, from Latin motor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

གངས་ཤུར་མོ་ཊ (Tibetan): snowmobile

Definitions

  1. snowmobile

Ancestry of “གངས་ཤུར་མོ་ཊ”, step by step

གངས་ཤུར་མོ་ཊ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan མོ་ཊ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམོ་ཊcar
2EnglishmotorA machine or device that converts other energy...
3Middle Englishmotour
4Latinmotormover; that which moves something; first-person...
5Latin-tor-er
6Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
7Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
8Proto-Indo-European-tor-s

via Tibetan ཤར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཤརeast
2Proto-Sino-Tibetansjarto rise; east

via Tibetan གངས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགངསsnow
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-sEvery word from Latin -torEvery word from Latin motor