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Where does “ཤིག” come from?

ཤིག (Tibetan) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *srik.

ཤིག (Tibetan): louse

Definitions

  1. louse

Ancestry of “ཤིག”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetan*srik—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *srik →