Where does “ཕྱེ་མ་ལེབ” come from?

ཕྱེ་མ་ལེབ (Tibetan) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan lep — butterfly.

ཕྱེ་མ་ལེབ (Tibetan): butterfly

Definitions

  1. butterfly

Ancestry of “ཕྱེ་མ་ལེབ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetanlepbutterfly
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan lep