Where does “སྟག་སྦྲང” come from?

སྟག་སྦྲང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan སྟག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan stak — tiger.

སྟག་སྦྲང (Tibetan): hornet

Definitions

  1. hornet

Ancestry of “སྟག་སྦྲང”, step by step

སྟག་སྦྲང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan སྟག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྟགtiger
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanstaktiger

via Tibetan སྦྲང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྦྲང—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan stak →Every word from Tibetan སྟག →