Where does “နိုင်ငံတော်” come from?
နိုင်ငံတော် (Burmese) comes from Burmese နိုင်ငံ, from Burmese နိုင်, from Burmese နာ, from Pali nāga, from Sanskrit नाग, from Proto-Indo-European nogʷós — bare, naked; naked, bare; naked, nude.
Ancestry of “နိုင်ငံတော်”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | နိုင်ငံ | country, state |
| 2 | Burmese | နိုင် | can, be able; a title used by Mon men, in lieu of... |
| 3 | Burmese | နာ | to be in pain, be hurt; to be ill |
| 4 | Pali | nāga | cobra; elephant; ironwood tree |
| 5 | Sanskrit | नाग | a snake, especially Coluber naga; a naga or... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | nogʷós | bare, naked; naked, bare; naked, nude |