Where does “ཞོ་ཤ” come from?

ཞོ་ཤ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཤ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan sja-n — meat, flesh, body, animal.

ཞོ་ཤ (Tibetan): sustenance

Definitions

  1. sustenance

Ancestry of “ཞོ་ཤ”, step by step

ཞོ་ཤ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཤ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཤmeat; flesh
2Proto-Sino-Tibetansja-nmeat, flesh, body, animal

via Tibetan ཞོ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཞོyogurt, curds fermented milk product
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan sja-n →Every word from Tibetan ཤ →