Where does “ကုလားတန်” come from?
ကုလားတန် (Burmese) comes from Burmese တန်, from English ton, from French ton, from Old French ton, from Latin tuus, from Russian туз, from Polish tuz, from Polish tu — to be able.
Ancestry of “ကုလားတန်”, step by step
ကုလားတန် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese တန်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | တန် | to be worth |
| 2 | English | ton | A unit of weight equal to 2240 pounds or 2000... |
| 3 | French | ton | Your, thy; Tone; Tone, shade |
| 4 | Old French | ton | your |
| 5 | Latin | tuus | your |
| 6 | Russian | туз | ace; bigwig; two-oar dinghy |
| 7 | Polish | tuz | ace; luminary, person of importance in their... |
| 8 | Polish | tu | here |
| 9 | Polish | być | to be |
| 10 | Polish | móc | to be able; may, might; to be allowed |
| 11 | Old Polish | móc | can, may, to be able to |
| 12 | Proto-Slavic | moťь | power |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | mógʰtis | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | meǵʰ- | to be able |
via Burmese ကုလား
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ကုလား | Indians and persons of South Asian ancestry; Term... |
| 2 | Pali | kula | clan, caste, family |
| 3 | Pali | samagga | united, being in harmony |
| 4 | Pali | agga | highest; top-most |
| 5 | Sanskrit | अग्र | foremost, anterior, first, prominent, projecting,... |
| 6 | Sanskrit | अङ्ग् | to go |
| 7 | Sanskrit | इङ्ग् | to agitate |