Where does “དེར” come from?

དེར (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ར, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-ga — old.

དེར (Tibetan): there

Definitions

  1. there

Ancestry of “དེར”, step by step

དེར traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརgoat
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanr-gaold

via Tibetan དེ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanདེthat
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-ga →Every word from Tibetan ར →