Where does “ကုလားတန်” come from?
ကုလားတန် (Burmese) comes from Burmese တန်, from English ton, from English tun, from Middle English tunne, from Old English tunne, from Proto-Germanic tunnǭ, from Latin tunna, from Proto-Celtic tondā — to stretch, string; to cut.
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 | English | tun | A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the... |
| 4 | Middle English | tunne | cask; barrel |
| 5 | Old English | tunne | barrel, cask |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | tunnǭ | — |
| 7 | Latin | tunna | tun, box |
| 8 | Proto-Celtic | tondā | skin; surface, skin |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | tend- | to stretch, to extend; to split, cut off |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | temh₂- | to stretch, string; to cut |
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 |