Where does “རྡོ་རྒྱུས” come from?

རྡོ་རྒྱུས (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan རས་པ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk.

རྡོ་རྒྱུས (Tibetan): asbestos

Definitions

  1. asbestos

Ancestry of “རྡོ་རྒྱུས”, step by step

རྡོ་རྒྱུས traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan རས་པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརས་པperson wearing only cotton clothes, Milarepa,...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk

via Tibetan རྡོ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྡོstone, rock
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːkEvery word from Tibetan རས་པ
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