Where does “ཉོ་པ” come from?

ཉོ་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཉ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-ŋja — fish; tusk; tooth.

ཉོ་པ (Tibetan): buyer, shopper

Definitions

  1. buyer, shopper

Ancestry of “ཉོ་པ”, step by step

ཉོ་པ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཉ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཉfish
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-ŋjafish; tusk; tooth

via Tibetan པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཔa nominalization suffix
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-ŋja →Every word from Tibetan ཉ →