Where does “တစ်စုံတစ်ဦး” come from?

တစ်စုံတစ်ဦး (Burmese) comes from Burmese တစ်စုံ, from Burmese တစ်, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-tek — one.

တစ်စုံတစ်ဦး (Burmese): somebody, someone

Definitions

  1. somebody, someone

Ancestry of “တစ်စုံတစ်ဦး”, step by step

တစ်စုံတစ်ဦး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese တစ်စုံ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseတစ်စုံpair, set
2Burmeseတစ်one
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*kV-tekone

via Burmese ဦး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဦးsir
2Proto-Sino-Tibetand-bu-shead
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-tek →Every word from Burmese တစ် →Every word from Burmese တစ်စုံ →