Where does “ကိုယ်စား” come from?

ကိုယ်စား (Burmese) comes from Burmese ကိုယ်, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-kəw — body; chest; thorax; corpse.

ကိုယ်စား (Burmese): on behalf of

Definitions

  1. on behalf of

Ancestry of “ကိုယ်စား”, step by step

ကိုယ်စား traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ကိုယ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကိုယ်torso
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-kəwbody; chest; thorax; corpse

via Burmese စား

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseစားto eat; to divide

Words derived from “ကိုယ်စား”

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