Where does “རི་རྒྱུད” come from?

རི་རྒྱུད (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan རི, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ri — mountain.

རི་རྒྱུད (Tibetan): mountain range

Definitions

  1. mountain range

Ancestry of “རི་རྒྱུད”, step by step

རི་རྒྱུད traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan རི

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརིmountain, hill
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanrimountain

via Tibetan རྒྱུད

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྒྱུདstring
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ri →Every word from Tibetan རི →