Where does “འབྲུག་སྒྲ” come from?

འབྲུག་སྒྲ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ས, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa.

འབྲུག་སྒྲ (Tibetan): sound of thunder, thunderclap

Definitions

  1. sound of thunder, thunderclap

Ancestry of “འབྲུག་སྒྲ”, step by step

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

via Tibetan ས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསearth, land, soil, ground
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*s-grwa—

via Tibetan འབྲུག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའབྲུགdragon
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanm-bru(ŋ/k)dragon; thunder
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa →Every word from Tibetan ས →