Where does “ဓာတ်ကြီးလေးပါး” come from?
ဓာတ်ကြီးလေးပါး (Burmese) comes from Burmese လေး, from Old Burmese လိယ်, from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij.
ဓာတ်ကြီးလေးပါး (Burmese): four basic properties of matter in the Abhidharma
Definitions
- four basic properties of matter in the Abhidharma
Ancestry of “ဓာတ်ကြီးလေးပါး”, step by step
ဓာတ်ကြီးလေးပါး traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese လေး
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | လေး | four; heavy; bow |
| 2 | Old Burmese | လိယ် | — |
| 3 | Sino-Tibetan | *tV-lij | — |
via Burmese ဓာတ်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ဓာတ် | relic; mineral; faecal matter |
| 2 | Pali | dhātu | element; natural condition, a relic; root of a... |
| 3 | Sanskrit | धातु | layer, stratum; constituent part, ingredient;... |
via Burmese ကြီး
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ကြီး | big; large; great (in magnitude); high (in degree) |