Where does “ကျရှုံး” come from?

ကျရှုံး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ကျ, from Proto-Karen *kliᴬ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lij.

ကျရှုံး (Burmese): to fail

Definitions

  1. to fail

Ancestry of “ကျရှုံး”, step by step

ကျရှုံး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ကျ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကျto fall
2Proto-Karen*kliᴬ—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*s-lij—

via Burmese ရှုံး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရှုံးto fail (an examination), be defeated (in battle, sports, and games), lose (in business, game, match, legal case, etc.)
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lij →Every word from Proto-Karen *kliᴬ →Every word from Burmese ကျ →