Where does “གྲང་གློག་འཕྲུལ་ཆས” come from?

གྲང་གློག་འཕྲུལ་ཆས (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གློག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lewk — to shine, flash.

གྲང་གློག་འཕྲུལ་ཆས (Tibetan): air conditioner

Definitions

  1. air conditioner

Ancestry of “གྲང་གློག་འཕྲུལ་ཆས”, step by step

གྲང་གློག་འཕྲུལ་ཆས traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གློག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགློགlightning
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*lewkto shine, flash

via Tibetan གྲང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགྲང—
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanm/s-glak ~ m-glaŋcold; freeze

via Tibetan འཕྲུལ་ཆས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའཕྲུལ་ཆས—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lewk →Every word from Tibetan གློག →