Where does “གཞོང་ཞུང” come from?

གཞོང་ཞུང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཞང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan djuŋ — insect; bug.

Ancestry of “གཞོང་ཞུང”, step by step

གཞོང་ཞུང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཞང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཞངmaternal uncle
2Proto-Sino-Tibetandjuŋinsect; bug

via Tibetan གཞོང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཞོངbasin, bowl, vessel
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan djuŋ →Every word from Tibetan ཞང →