Where does “ကုန်တင်ကား” come from?
ကုန်တင်ကား (Burmese) comes from Burmese ကား, from English car, from Middle English carre, from Anglo-Norman carre, from Latin carra, from Latin carrus, from Gaulish karros, from Proto-Celtic karros — to run.
ကုန်တင်ကား (Burmese): truck, lorry
Definitions
- truck, lorry
Ancestry of “ကုန်တင်ကား”, step by step
ကုန်တင်ကား traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese ကား
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ကား | car |
| 2 | English | car | A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with... |
| 3 | Middle English | carre | cart, wagon |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman | carre | cart |
| 5 | Latin | carra | — |
| 6 | Latin | carrus | a wagon, a four-wheeled baggage cart; a cartload,... |
| 7 | Gaulish | karros | wagon |
| 8 | Proto-Celtic | karros | wagon |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱr̥sós | vehicle |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱers- | to run |