Where does “ငွေစက္ကူ” come from?

ငွေစက္ကူ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ငွေ, from Old Burmese ငုယ်, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-ŋurl — silver.

ငွေစက္ကူ (Burmese): banknote, paper currency

Definitions

  1. banknote, paper currency

Ancestry of “ငွေစက္ကူ”, step by step

ငွေစက္ကူ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ငွေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseငွေsilver; money
2Old Burmeseငုယ်silver
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*d-ŋurlsilver

via Burmese စက္ကူ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseစက္ကူpaper
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-ŋurl →Every word from Old Burmese ငုယ် →Every word from Burmese ငွေ →