Where does “འབྲུག་ཡུལ” come from?

འབྲུག་ཡུལ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan འབྲུག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m-bru(ŋ/k) — dragon; thunder.

Ancestry of “འབྲུག་ཡུལ”, step by step

འབྲུག་ཡུལ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan འབྲུག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའབྲུགdragon
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanm-bru(ŋ/k)dragon; thunder

via Tibetan ཡུལ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཡུལplace, area
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m-bru(ŋ/k) →Every word from Tibetan འབྲུག →