Where does “ཉི་ཤུ” come from?

ཉི་ཤུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan བཅུ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj — ten.

ཉི་ཤུ (Tibetan): twenty

Definitions

  1. twenty

Ancestry of “ཉི་ཤུ”, step by step

ཉི་ཤུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan བཅུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབཅུten; future of འཆུ
2Proto-Sino-Tibetants(j)i(j) ~ tsjajten

via Tibetan གཉིས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཉིསtwo
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*kV-ni-stwo
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj →Every word from Tibetan བཅུ →