Where does “མིག་འབྲས” come from?

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

མིག་འབྲས (Tibetan): eyeball

Definitions

  1. eyeball

Ancestry of “མིག་འབྲས”, step by step

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

via Tibetan མིག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམིགeye
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*mjəkeye

via Tibetan འབྲས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའབྲསrice; fruit
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanb-rasrice; fruit; round object
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mjək →Every word from Tibetan མིག →