Where does “གྲུ་བཞི” come from?

གྲུ་བཞི (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གྲུ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-g(r)u — elbow; cubit.

གྲུ་བཞི (Tibetan): four-cornered, rectangular, square

Definitions

  1. four-cornered, rectangular, square

Ancestry of “གྲུ་བཞི”, step by step

གྲུ་བཞི traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གྲུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགྲུboat, ship; angle, corner
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-g(r)uelbow; cubit

via Tibetan བཞི

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབཞིfour
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*pV-lijfour
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-g(r)u →Every word from Tibetan གྲུ →