Where does “དུར་ཁྲོད” come from?

དུར་ཁྲོད (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan དར, from Mongolian торго, from Proto-Mongolic torga, from Proto-Turkic torko — silk fabric.

དུར་ཁྲོད (Tibetan): charnel ground, sky burial site

Definitions

  1. charnel ground, sky burial site

Ancestry of “དུར་ཁྲོད”, step by step

དུར་ཁྲོད traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan དར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanདརsilk; banner or sash, especially a silken one
2Mongolianторгоsilk; silk-like, soft and thin; fine, delicate
3Proto-Mongolictorga—
4Proto-Turkictorkosilk fabric

via Tibetan ཁྲོད

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཁྲོད—
Every word from Proto-Turkic torko →Every word from Proto-Mongolic torga →Every word from Mongolian торго →