Where does “တစ်ထောင်” come from?
တစ်ထောင် (Burmese) comes from Burmese တစ်, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-tek.
တစ်ထောင် (Burmese): one thousand
Ancestry of “တစ်ထောင်”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Burmese | တစ် | one |
| 2 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | *kV-tek | — |