Where does “གཉིས་པ” come from?

གཉིས་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གཉིས, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-ni-s — two.

གཉིས་པ (Tibetan): second

Definitions

  1. second

Ancestry of “གཉིས་པ”, step by step

གཉིས་པ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གཉིས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཉིསtwo
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*kV-ni-stwo

via Tibetan པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཔa nominalization suffix
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-ni-s →Every word from Tibetan གཉིས →