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Where does “རྒྱ་ནག” come from?

རྒྱ་ནག (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan རྒྱ, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman r-gya-n.

རྒྱ་ནག (Tibetan): China

Definitions

  1. China

Ancestry of “རྒྱ་ནག”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྒྱextent, size, area, width; vastness,...
2Proto-Tibeto-Burmanr-gya-n—
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