Where does “མིག་ཆུ” come from?

མིག་ཆུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan མིག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mjək — eye.

མིག་ཆུ (Tibetan): tear

Definitions

  1. tear

Ancestry of “མིག་ཆུ”, step by step

མིག་ཆུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan མིག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམིགeye
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*mjəkeye

via Tibetan ཆུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཆུwater; river
2Proto-Sino-Tibetantsjuwater; liquid; bodily fluid; water, liquid, body...
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mjək →Every word from Tibetan མིག →