Where does “མིག་ཤེལ” come from?

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

མིག་ཤེལ (Tibetan): glasses, spectacles

Definitions

  1. glasses, spectacles

Ancestry of “མིག་ཤེལ”, step by step

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

via Tibetan མིག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམིགeye
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*mjəkeye

via Tibetan ཤེལ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཤེལglass
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mjək →Every word from Tibetan མིག →