Where does “မလေးမခန့်” come from?

မလေးမခန့် (Burmese) comes from Burmese လေး, from Old Burmese လိယ်, from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij.

မလေးမခန့် (Burmese): impudently, with no respect

Definitions

  1. impudently, with no respect

Ancestry of “မလေးမခန့်”, step by step

မလေးမခန့် traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese လေး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseလေးfour; heavy; bow
2Old Burmeseလိယ်—
3Sino-Tibetan*tV-lij—

via Burmese မ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမnot; miss; Alternative form of မယ်
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanmano, not, negative, not have, none

via Burmese ခန့်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseခန့်to assign, charge, appoint (someone to a post)
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij →Every word from Old Burmese လိယ် →Every word from Burmese လေး →