Where does “དྲུག་པ” come from?

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

དྲུག་པ (Tibetan): sixth

Definitions

  1. sixth

Ancestry of “དྲུག་པ”, step by step

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

via Tibetan དྲུག

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

via Tibetan པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཔa nominalization suffix
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d-k-ruk →Every word from Tibetan དྲུག →