Where does “တောင်သူ” come from?

တောင်သူ (Burmese) comes from Burmese သူ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan su ~ s-lu — who; indefinite pronoun; remote third-person...

တောင်သူ (Burmese): cultivators of crops other than rice

Definitions

  1. cultivators of crops other than rice

Ancestry of “တောင်သူ”, step by step

တောင်သူ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese သူ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseသူhe; she; it
2Proto-Sino-Tibetansu ~ s-luwho; indefinite pronoun; remote third-person...

via Burmese တောင်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseတောင်mountain; south; a cubit
2Proto-Tibeto-Burmanm/r-duŋ—

Words derived from “တောင်သူ”

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