Where does “རྒྱལ་མོ” come from?

རྒྱལ་མོ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan མོ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mow — woman; female relative.

རྒྱལ་མོ (Tibetan): queen; empress

Definitions

  1. queen; empress

Ancestry of “རྒྱལ་མོ”, step by step

རྒྱལ་མོ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan མོ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམོfemale; she
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanmowwoman; female relative

via Tibetan རྒྱལ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྒྱལto be victorious, to win, to conquer, to subdue,...
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mow →Every word from Tibetan མོ →