Where does “ཉ་ཤ” come from?

ཉ་ཤ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཤ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan sja-n — meat, flesh, body, animal.

ཉ་ཤ (Tibetan): fish meat

Definitions

  1. fish meat

Ancestry of “ཉ་ཤ”, step by step

ཉ་ཤ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཤ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཤmeat; flesh
2Proto-Sino-Tibetansja-nmeat, flesh, body, animal

via Tibetan ཉ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཉfish
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-ŋjafish; tusk; tooth
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan sja-n →Every word from Tibetan ཤ →