Where does “གནམ་གཤིས” come from?

གནམ་གཤིས (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གནམ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-nam — sky, sun.

གནམ་གཤིས (Tibetan): weather, climate

Definitions

  1. weather, climate

Ancestry of “གནམ་གཤིས”, step by step

གནམ་གཤིས traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གནམ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགནམsky; air, weather
2Proto-Sino-Tibetang-namsky, sun

via Tibetan གཤིས་ཀ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཤིས་ཀnature
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-namEvery word from Tibetan གནམ