Where does “འཁོར་སྐར” come from?

འཁོར་སྐར (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan འཁོར, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-kwar.

འཁོར་སྐར (Tibetan): satellite; moon

Definitions

  1. satellite; moon

Ancestry of “འཁོར་སྐར”, step by step

འཁོར་སྐར traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan འཁོར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའཁོརto turn round, to rotate, to revolve, to spin, to...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*s/m-kwar—

via Tibetan སྐར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྐར—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-kwar →Every word from Tibetan འཁོར →