Where does “ཨ་ཞང་གི” come from?

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

ཨ་ཞང་གི (Tibetan): avuncular, like or pertaining to an uncle

Definitions

  1. avuncular, like or pertaining to an uncle

Ancestry of “ཨ་ཞང་གི”, step by step

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

via Tibetan ཨ་ཞང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཨ་ཞངmaternal uncle
2Tibetanཞངmaternal uncle
3Proto-Sino-Tibetandjuŋinsect; bug

via Tibetan གི

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanགིOne of the five genitive particles, used after
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan djuŋ →Every word from Tibetan ཞང →Every word from Tibetan ཨ་ཞང →