Where does “དྲུག་ཅུ” come from?

དྲུག་ཅུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan དྲུག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d-k-ruk — six.

དྲུག་ཅུ (Tibetan): sixty

Definitions

  1. sixty

Ancestry of “དྲུག་ཅུ”, step by step

དྲུག་ཅུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan དྲུག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanདྲུགsix
2Proto-Sino-Tibetand-k-ruksix

via Tibetan ཅུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཅུten {{q|in compounds}}
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d-k-ruk →Every word from Tibetan དྲུག →