Where does “တစ်နေကုန်” come from?
တစ်နေကုန် (Burmese) comes from Burmese နေ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-na-s — to stay, to live, to dwell, to be; to stay, to...
တစ်နေကုန် (Burmese): the whole day long, all day
Definitions
- the whole day long, all day
Ancestry of “တစ်နေကုန်”, step by step
တစ်နေကုန် traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese နေ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Burmese | နေ | sun; to stay; to live, dwell |
| 2 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | g-na-s | to stay, to live, to dwell, to be; to stay, to... |
via Burmese တစ်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Burmese | တစ် | one |
| 2 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | *kV-tek | one |
via Burmese ကုန်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ကုန် | goods; commodity; merchandise |
| 2 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | (m-)kul | all; twenty |