Where does “རྒྱུ་ནག” come from?

རྒྱུ་ནག (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ར, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-ga — old.

རྒྱུ་ནག (Tibetan): small intestine

Definitions

  1. small intestine

Ancestry of “རྒྱུ་ནག”, step by step

རྒྱུ་ནག traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརgoat
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanr-gaold

via Tibetan ནག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanནགSee ནག་པོ
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-ga →Every word from Tibetan ར →