Where does “སྦྲུལ་ཉ” come from?

སྦྲུལ་ཉ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཉ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-ŋja — fish; tusk; tooth.

སྦྲུལ་ཉ (Tibetan): eel

Definitions

  1. eel

Ancestry of “སྦྲུལ་ཉ”, step by step

སྦྲུལ་ཉ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཉ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཉfish
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-ŋjafish; tusk; tooth

via Tibetan སྦྲུལ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྦྲུལsnake
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-b/m-ruːlsnake
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-ŋja →Every word from Tibetan ཉ →