Where does “རླུང་འཁོར” come from?

རླུང་འཁོར (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan འཁོར, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-kwar.

རླུང་འཁོར (Tibetan): windmill

Definitions

  1. windmill

Ancestry of “རླུང་འཁོར”, step by step

རླུང་འཁོར traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan འཁོར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའཁོརto turn round, to rotate, to revolve, to spin, to...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*s/m-kwar

via Tibetan རླུང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརླུངwind, air; oral transmission
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-kwarEvery word from Tibetan འཁོར