Where does “རྣ་མཆོག” come from?

རྣ་མཆོག (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan རྣ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-na.

རྣ་མཆོག (Tibetan): ear

Definitions

  1. ear

Ancestry of “རྣ་མཆོག”, step by step

རྣ་མཆོག traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan རྣ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྣear
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*r/g-na—

via Tibetan མཆོག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམཆོགexcellent
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-na →Every word from Tibetan རྣ →
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