Where does “ဆန်ကုန်မြေလေး” come from?

ဆန်ကုန်မြေလေး (Burmese) comes from Burmese လေး, from Old Burmese လိယ်, from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij.

ဆန်ကုန်မြေလေး (Burmese): useless person, good-for-nothing

Definitions

  1. useless person, good-for-nothing

Ancestry of “ဆန်ကုန်မြေလေး”, step by step

ဆန်ကုန်မြေလေး traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese လေး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseလေးfour; heavy; bow
2Old Burmeseလိယ်—
3Sino-Tibetan*tV-lij—

via Burmese မြေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမြေearth; land
2Old Burmeseမ္လိယ်—

via Burmese ကုန်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကုန်goods; commodity; merchandise
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan(m-)kulall; twenty
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij →Every word from Old Burmese လိယ် →Every word from Burmese လေး →