Where does “ཤིང་ཚ” come from?

ཤིང་ཚ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཤིང, from Sanskrit हिङ्गु, from Proto-Iranian Hángwr̥, from Proto-Iranian Hanguǰatu, from Proto-Iranian Hangwr̥ — extract, resin; resin.

ཤིང་ཚ (Tibetan): cinnamon

Definitions

  1. cinnamon

Ancestry of “ཤིང་ཚ”, step by step

ཤིང་ཚ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཤིང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཤིངtree, wood
2Sanskritहिङ्गुasafoetida; a kind of liquid made from the roots...
3Proto-IranianHángwr̥extract, resin
4Proto-IranianHanguǰatuasafoetida
5Proto-IranianHangwr̥extract, resin; resin

via Tibetan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanTibetan letter tsha
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*tsəto be hot

Words derived from “ཤིང་ཚ

Every word from Proto-Iranian Hangwr̥Every word from Proto-Iranian HanguǰatuEvery word from Proto-Iranian Hángwr̥
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