Where does “རྒྱ་ཤུག” come from?
རྒྱ་ཤུག (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan རྒྱ, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman r-gya-n.
རྒྱ་ཤུག (Tibetan): various juniper species, such as the Himalayan juniper / flaky juniper (Juniperus squamata) and the Sichuan juniper (Juniperus saltuaria)
Definitions
- various juniper species, such as the Himalayan juniper / flaky juniper (Juniperus squamata) and the Sichuan juniper (Juniperus saltuaria)
Ancestry of “རྒྱ་ཤུག”, step by step
རྒྱ་ཤུག traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan རྒྱ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | རྒྱ | extent, size, area, width; vastness,... |
| 2 | Proto-Tibeto-Burman | r-gya-n | — |
via Tibetan ཤུག
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཤུག | — |