Where does “ཉལ་ཁྲི” come from?

ཉལ་ཁྲི (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཁྲི, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan rij — many.

ཉལ་ཁྲི (Tibetan): bed

Definitions

  1. bed

Ancestry of “ཉལ་ཁྲི”, step by step

ཉལ་ཁྲི traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཁྲི

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཁྲིten thousand; seat, chair
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanrijmany

via Tibetan ཉལ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཉལto lie down, to recline; to sleep, to go to sleep
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