Where does “ལྔ་བཅུ” come from?

ལྔ་བཅུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan བཅུ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj — ten.

ལྔ་བཅུ (Tibetan): fifty

Definitions

  1. fifty

Ancestry of “ལྔ་བཅུ”, step by step

ལྔ་བཅུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan བཅུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབཅུten; future of འཆུ
2Proto-Sino-Tibetants(j)i(j) ~ tsjajten

via Tibetan ལྔ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanལྔfive
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*l-ŋaʔfive
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj →Every word from Tibetan བཅུ →