Where does “ငရဲကြီးရှစ်ထပ်” come from?

ငရဲကြီးရှစ်ထပ် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ရှစ်, from Old Burmese ရျှတ်, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-rjat — eight.

ငရဲကြီးရှစ်ထပ် (Burmese): eight principal purgatories

Definitions

  1. eight principal purgatories

Ancestry of “ငရဲကြီးရှစ်ထပ်”, step by step

ငရဲကြီးရှစ်ထပ် traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရှစ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရှစ်eight
2Old Burmeseရျှတ်
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*pV-rjateight

via Burmese ထပ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseထပ်to stack; to pile; to place one upon another; to...

via Burmese ငရဲကြီး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseငရဲကြီး
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-rjatEvery word from Old Burmese ရျှတ်Every word from Burmese ရှစ်