Where does “ကောင်းရာသုဂတိ” come from?

ကောင်းရာသုဂတိ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ရာ, from Old Burmese ရျာ, from Sino-Tibetan *pV-rja(k).

ကောင်းရာသုဂတိ (Burmese): better future existence cf. better place in English

Definitions

  1. better future existence cf. better place in English

Ancestry of “ကောင်းရာသုဂတိ”, step by step

ကောင်းရာသုဂတိ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရာ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရာhundred
2Old Burmeseရျာ—
3Sino-Tibetan*pV-rja(k)—

via Burmese သုဂတိ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseသုဂတိthe three pleasant realms of existence
2Palisugati—

via Burmese ကောင်း

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကောင်းgood
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *pV-rja(k) →Every word from Old Burmese ရျာ →Every word from Burmese ရာ →