Where does “དཔུང་མགོ” come from?

དཔུང་མགོ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan མགོ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m/s-gaw — head.

དཔུང་མགོ (Tibetan): shoulder

Definitions

  1. shoulder

Ancestry of “དཔུང་མགོ”, step by step

དཔུང་མགོ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan མགོ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམགོhead
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanm/s-gawhead

via Tibetan དཔུང་པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanདཔུང་པshoulder
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