Where does “སྤྲེའུ” come from?

སྤྲེའུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ེའུ, from Tibetan བུ — son, child.

སྤྲེའུ (Tibetan): small monkey

Definitions

  1. small monkey

Ancestry of “སྤྲེའུ”, step by step

སྤྲེའུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ེའུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanེའུdiminutive suffix
2Tibetanབུson, child

via Tibetan སྤྲེལ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྤྲེལmonkey
Every word from Tibetan བུ →Every word from Tibetan ེའུ →