Where does “རྣ་སྤབས” come from?

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

རྣ་སྤབས (Tibetan): ear wax

Definitions

  1. ear wax

Ancestry of “རྣ་སྤབས”, step by step

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

via Tibetan རྣ

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

via Tibetan སྤབས

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