Where does “རྫ་རྐྱན” come from?

རྫ་རྐྱན (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ར, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-ga — old.

རྫ་རྐྱན (Tibetan): pitcher (earthenware)

Definitions

  1. pitcher (earthenware)

Ancestry of “རྫ་རྐྱན”, step by step

རྫ་རྐྱན traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརgoat
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanr-gaold

via Tibetan རྐྱན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྐྱན—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-ga →Every word from Tibetan ར →