Where does “နေကောင်းရဲ့လား” come from?

နေကောင်းရဲ့လား (Burmese) comes from Burmese နေ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-na-s — to stay, to live, to dwell, to be; to stay, to...

နေကောင်းရဲ့လား (Burmese): how are you?

Definitions

  1. how are you?

Ancestry of “နေကောင်းရဲ့လား”, step by step

နေကောင်းရဲ့လား traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese နေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseနေsun; to stay; to live, dwell
2Proto-Sino-Tibetang-na-sto stay, to live, to dwell, to be; to stay, to...

via Burmese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseto succeed, manage, be able; to be permitted, be...
2Proto-Austroasiatic*roajfly (insect)

via Burmese ကောင်း

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကောင်းgood
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan g-na-s