Where does “རྣ་རྒྱན” come from?

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

རྣ་རྒྱན (Tibetan): earring

Definitions

  1. earring

Ancestry of “རྣ་རྒྱན”, step by step

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

via Tibetan རྣ

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

via Tibetan རྒྱན

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