Where does “རྒན་པོ” come from?
རྒན་པོ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan རྒན — elder, adult.
རྒན་པོ (Tibetan): elder, headman, senior, uncle, grandfather
Definitions
- elder, headman, senior, uncle, grandfather
Ancestry of “རྒན་པོ”, step by step
རྒན་པོ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan རྒན
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | རྒན | elder, adult |
via Tibetan པོ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | པོ | "masculine agent suffix"; "nominalisation/agent... |