Where does “སྐྱེ་རྒ་ན་འཆི” come from?

སྐྱེ་རྒ་ན་འཆི (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan འཆི, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan səj, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij — to die.

Ancestry of “སྐྱེ་རྒ་ན་འཆི”, step by step

སྐྱེ་རྒ་ན་འཆི traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan འཆི

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའཆིto die; to die away, to go out, to be destroyed
2Proto-Sino-Tibetansəjto die
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*sijto die

via Tibetan ར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརgoat
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanr-gaold

via Tibetan ན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanནage, year of age; if; to be or become ill, to be...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*na—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij →Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan səj →Every word from Tibetan འཆི →