Where does “ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་གནང” come from?

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་གནང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གནང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan naŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan na-ŋ — you.

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་གནང (Tibetan): thank you very much

Definitions

  1. thank you very much

Ancestry of “ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་གནང”, step by step

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་གནང traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གནང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགནངgive, grant
2Proto-Sino-Tibetannaŋinside
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanna-ŋyou

via Tibetan ཆེ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཆེbig

via Tibetan ཐུགས་རྗེ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཐུགས་རྗེcompassion, favour, generosity, mercy
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan na-ŋEvery word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan naŋEvery word from Tibetan གནང