Where does “གླང་པོ་ཆེ” come from?

གླང་པོ་ཆེ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གླང་པོ, from Tibetan གླང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan glaŋ — ox; elephant; poplar.

གླང་པོ་ཆེ (Tibetan): elephant

Definitions

  1. elephant

Ancestry of “གླང་པོ་ཆེ”, step by step

གླང་པོ་ཆེ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གླང་པོ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགླང་པོelephant
2Tibetanགླངox
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanglaŋox; elephant; poplar

via Tibetan ཆེ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཆེbig
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan glaŋ →Every word from Tibetan གླང →Every word from Tibetan གླང་པོ →