གུར། སྒར། སྒེར།

While lying down in a tent in a Mongolian camp recently, I began to wonder about the Tibetan words gur, sgar, and sger, particularly if these words are etymologically cognates, and if these were derived from the Mongolian ger. To be clear, gur in Tibetan means “tent,” and sgar “camp” or “encampment,” and sger “private.” Interestingly, Jäschke does not seem to know the meaning of sger in this sense. Could it be that gur and sgar always connote an element of “privacy”?