Where does “རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས” come from?

རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ལྗོངས, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan kl(j)u(ŋ/k) — river; valley.

རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས (Tibetan): autonomous region

Definitions

  1. autonomous region

Ancestry of “རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས”, step by step

རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ལྗོངས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanལྗོངསlarge valley, principal or main valley; district,...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetankl(j)u(ŋ/k)river; valley

via Tibetan རང་སྐྱོང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརང་སྐྱོངautonomy
2Tibetanརངyou; self, oneself; very; quite

Words derived from “རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས”

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