Where does “གྲུ་མཁན” come from?

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

གྲུ་མཁན (Tibetan): ferryman

Definitions

  1. ferryman

Ancestry of “གྲུ་མཁན”, step by step

གྲུ་མཁན 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 མཁན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམཁན—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-g(r)u →Every word from Tibetan གྲུ →