Where does “སྐྱོ་བ” come from?

སྐྱོ་བ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ས, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa.

སྐྱོ་བ (Tibetan): sadness; grief; sorrow

Definitions

  1. sadness; grief; sorrow

Ancestry of “སྐྱོ་བ”, step by step

སྐྱོ་བ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསearth, land, soil, ground
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*s-grwa—

via Tibetan བ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབcommon suffix for adjectives, verbs and nouns;...
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