Where does “སྐུ་གདུང” come from?

སྐུ་གདུང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan སྐུ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-kəw — body; chest; thorax; corpse.

སྐུ་གདུང (Tibetan): relics

Definitions

  1. relics

Ancestry of “སྐུ་གདུང”, step by step

སྐུ་གདུང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan སྐུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྐུbody; image, statue
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-kəwbody; chest; thorax; corpse

via Tibetan གདུང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགདུང—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-kəw →Every word from Tibetan སྐུ →