Where does “ཞང་པོའི” come from?

ཞང་པོའི (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཞང་པོ, from Tibetan ཞང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan djuŋ — insect; bug.

ཞང་པོའི (Tibetan): avuncular, like or pertaining to an uncle

Definitions

  1. avuncular, like or pertaining to an uncle

Ancestry of “ཞང་པོའི”, step by step

ཞང་པོའི traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཞང་པོ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཞང་པོmaternal uncle
2Tibetanཞངmaternal uncle
3Proto-Sino-Tibetandjuŋinsect; bug

via Tibetan འི

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanའིOne of the five genitive particles, used after...
2TibetanགིOne of the five genitive particles, used after
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