Where does “ཐད་འཕུར་གནམ་གྲུ” come from?

ཐད་འཕུར་གནམ་གྲུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གནམ་གྲུ, from Tibetan གནམ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-nam — sky, sun.

ཐད་འཕུར་གནམ་གྲུ (Tibetan): helicopter

Definitions

  1. helicopter

Ancestry of “ཐད་འཕུར་གནམ་གྲུ”, step by step

ཐད་འཕུར་གནམ་གྲུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གནམ་གྲུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགནམ་གྲུaeroplane, airplane, plane
2Tibetanགནམsky; air, weather
3Proto-Sino-Tibetang-namsky, sun

via Tibetan ཐད་འཕུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཐད་འཕུ—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-nam →Every word from Tibetan གནམ →Every word from Tibetan གནམ་གྲུ →