Where does “ཨ་ཞང” come from?

ཨ་ཞང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཞང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan djuŋ — insect; bug.

ཨ་ཞང (Tibetan): maternal uncle

Definitions

  1. maternal uncle

Ancestry of “ཨ་ཞང”, step by step

ཨ་ཞང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཞང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཞངmaternal uncle
2Proto-Sino-Tibetandjuŋinsect; bug

via Tibetan ཨ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanཨTibetan letter a

Words derived from “ཨ་ཞང”

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan djuŋ →Every word from Tibetan ཞང →