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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

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