Where does “ဆယ့်ကိုး” come from?

ဆယ့်ကိုး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ကိုး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d/s-kəw — nine.

ဆယ့်ကိုး (Burmese): nineteen

Definitions

  1. nineteen

Ancestry of “ဆယ့်ကိုး”, step by step

ဆယ့်ကိုး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ကိုး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကိုးnine; to trust in, rely on; to refer to
2Proto-Sino-Tibetand/s-kəwnine

via Burmese ဆယ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဆယ်ten
2Proto-Sino-Tibetants(j)i(j) ~ tsjajten
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d/s-kəw →Every word from Burmese ကိုး →