Where does “တစ်စုံတစ်ခု” come from?
တစ်စုံတစ်ခု (Burmese) comes from Burmese တစ်စုံ, from Burmese တစ်, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-tek — one.
တစ်စုံတစ်ခု (Burmese): something
Definitions
- something
Ancestry of “တစ်စုံတစ်ခု”, step by step
တစ်စုံတစ်ခု traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese တစ်စုံ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | တစ်စုံ | pair, set |
| 2 | Burmese | တစ် | one |
| 3 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | *kV-tek | one |
via Burmese ခု
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ခု | to be supported by something (coming) from below, prop up |