Where does “རྐང་རྟེན” come from?

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

རྐང་རྟེན (Tibetan): pedal

Definitions

  1. pedal

Ancestry of “རྐང་རྟེན”, step by step

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

via Tibetan རྐང

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

via Tibetan རྟེན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྟེནseat; temple
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