Where does “ངག་དབང” come from?

ངག་དབང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ངག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋaq.

Ancestry of “ངག་དབང”, step by step

ངག་དབང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ངག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanངགspeech, voice
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*ŋaq—

via Tibetan དབང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanདབངempowerment
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋaq →Every word from Tibetan ངག →