Where does “རྐང་པ” come from?

རྐང་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan རྐང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-k(j)aŋ — foot, leg.

རྐང་པ (Tibetan): foot, leg

Definitions

  1. foot, leg

Ancestry of “རྐང་པ”, step by step

རྐང་པ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan རྐང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanརྐངSee རྐང་པ
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanr-k(j)aŋfoot, leg

via Tibetan པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཔa nominalization suffix
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-k(j)aŋ →Every word from Tibetan རྐང →