Where does “တစ်ထောင်” come from?

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

တစ်ထောင် (Burmese): one thousand

Definitions

  1. one thousand

Ancestry of “တစ်ထောင်”, step by step

တစ်ထောင် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese တစ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseတစ်one
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*kV-tekone

via Burmese ထောင်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseထောင်prison; to stand; to set up
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-toŋthousand
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-tek →Every word from Burmese တစ် →