Where does “བསེ་རུ” come from?

བསེ་རུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ར, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-ga — old.

བསེ་རུ (Tibetan): rhinoceros

Definitions

  1. rhinoceros

Ancestry of “བསེ་རུ”, step by step

བསེ་རུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརgoat
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanr-gaold

via Tibetan བསེ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབསེrhinoceros
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanb-sejrhinoceros
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-ga →Every word from Tibetan ར →
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