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
- impudently, with no respect
Ancestry of “မလေးမခန့်”, step by step
မလေးမခန့် 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 မ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | မ | not; miss; Alternative form of မယ် |
| 2 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | ma | no, not, negative, not have, none |
via Burmese ခန့်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ခန့် | to assign, charge, appoint (someone to a post) |