Where does “ཡུན་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན” come from?
ཡུན་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཞིང་ཆེན, from Tibetan ཞིང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-liŋ — field; forest.
Ancestry of “ཡུན་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན”, step by step
ཡུན་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan ཞིང་ཆེན
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཞིང་ཆེན | province |
| 2 | Tibetan | ཞིང | field, ground, farmland; region, country, sphere,... |
| 3 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | b-liŋ | field; forest |
via Chinese Mandarin 雲南
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Mandarin | 雲南 | — |