Where does “တစ်ဆင့်စကား” come from?

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

တစ်ဆင့်စကား (Burmese): news, information from a secondary source

Definitions

  1. news, information from a secondary source

Ancestry of “တစ်ဆင့်စကား”, step by step

တစ်ဆင့်စကား traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese တစ်ဆင့်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseတစ်ဆင့်indirectly (through someone or something)
2Burmeseတစ်one
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*kV-tekone

via Burmese စကား

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseစကားlanguage; word
2Palicampaka—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-tek →Every word from Burmese တစ် →Every word from Burmese တစ်ဆင့် →