Where does “སྡུག་གླུ” come from?

སྡུག་གླུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan སྡུག, from Sanskrit दुःख, from Sanskrit दुस्-, from Proto-Indo-Aryan duš-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian duš-, from Proto-Indo-European dus-, from Proto-Indo-European dēwǝ- — to fail, be behind, be lacking.

སྡུག་གླུ (Tibetan): mournful song; elegy

Definitions

  1. mournful song; elegy

Ancestry of “སྡུག་གླུ”, step by step

སྡུག་གླུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan སྡུག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྡུགto be sad; to be depressed
2Sanskritदुःखsorrow, distress, suffering, grief, misery,...
3Sanskritदुस्-ill-, mal
4Proto-Indo-Aryanduš-
5Proto-Indo-Iranianduš-bad
6Proto-Indo-Europeandus-bad
7Proto-Indo-Europeandēwǝ-to fail, be behind, be lacking

via Tibetan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanTibetan letter ga
2Proto-Sino-Tibetang-lwa-plung
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dēwǝ-Every word from Sanskrit दुस्-Every word from Proto-Indo-European dus-
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