Where does “རྣ་ལོང” come from?

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

རྣ་ལོང (Tibetan): earring

Definitions

  1. earring

Ancestry of “རྣ་ལོང”, step by step

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

via Tibetan རྣ

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

via Tibetan ཨ་ལོང

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