Where does “ཕོ་ཕག” come from?

ཕོ་ཕག (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཕག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan pʷak — pig.

ཕོ་ཕག (Tibetan): boar

Definitions

  1. boar

Ancestry of “ཕོ་ཕག”, step by step

ཕོ་ཕག traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཕག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཕགpig
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanpʷakpig

via Tibetan ཕོ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཕོmale, man, gentleman, masculine
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan pʷak →Every word from Tibetan ཕག →