Where does “ကုန်ကူး” come from?

ကုန်ကူး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ကုန်, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan (m-)kul — all; twenty.

ကုန်ကူး (Burmese): to trade

Definitions

  1. to trade

Ancestry of “ကုန်ကူး”, step by step

ကုန်ကူး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ကုန်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကုန်goods; commodity; merchandise
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan(m-)kulall; twenty

via Burmese ကူး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကူးto cross; to swim; to copy; transcribe a written...
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