Where does “ကိုယ်စားလှယ်” come from?

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

ကိုယ်စားလှယ် (Burmese): representative, delegate, agent, proxy

Definitions

  1. representative, delegate, agent, proxy

Ancestry of “ကိုယ်စားလှယ်”, step by step

ကိုယ်စားလှယ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ကိုယ်စား

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကိုယ်စားon behalf of
2Burmeseကိုယ်torso
3Proto-Sino-Tibetans-kəwbody; chest; thorax; corpse

via Burmese လှယ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseလှယ်to exchange
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*lajto change

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