Where does “နှိုးစက်နာရီ” come from?
နှိုးစက်နာရီ (Burmese) comes from Burmese နှိုးစက်, from Burmese စက်, from Pali cakka, from Sanskrit चक्र, from Pali vatti, from German Watt, from Middle Low German wat, from Old Saxon hwat — who.
နှိုးစက်နာရီ (Burmese): alarm clock
Definitions
- alarm clock
Ancestry of “နှိုးစက်နာရီ”, step by step
နှိုးစက်နာရီ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese နှိုးစက်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | နှိုးစက် | alarm (of a clock, etc.) |
| 2 | Burmese | စက် | circle; wheel; cycle; machine, machinery; to... |
| 3 | Pali | cakka | wheel; circle; disc |
| 4 | Sanskrit | चक्र | the wheel; a potter's wheel; a discus or sharp... |
| 5 | Pali | vatti | to say |
| 6 | German | Watt | intertidal zone, foreshore, especially the vast... |
| 7 | Middle Low German | wat | what |
| 8 | Old Saxon | hwat | what; lo!, what!, indeed! |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | hwat | what |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | hwat | nominative/accusative singular neuter of *hwaz |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷód | what |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷós | who |