Where does “ခရိုး” come from?

ခရိုး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ခြံ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan kram — fence, garden.

ခရိုး (Burmese): fence

Definitions

  1. fence

Ancestry of “ခရိုး”, step by step

ခရိုး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ခြံ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseခြံfence; farm
2Proto-Sino-Tibetankramfence, garden

via Burmese ရိုး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရိုးsimple; honest; guileless
2Old Burmeseရိုဝ်း—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan kram →Every word from Burmese ခြံ →