Where does “གཟའ་ཉི་མ” come from?

གཟའ་ཉི་མ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཉི་མ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k) — sun.

གཟའ་ཉི་མ (Tibetan): Sunday

Definitions

  1. Sunday

Ancestry of “གཟའ་ཉི་མ”, step by step

གཟའ་ཉི་མ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཉི་མ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཉི་མsun; day; Sunday
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*ku-ni(k)sun

via Tibetan གཟའ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཟའplanet; the corresponding day of the week; Rahu
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k) →Every word from Tibetan ཉི་མ →