Where does “မော်တော်ပီကေ” come from?

မော်တော်ပီကေ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ပီကေ, from English pk, from English pack, from Middle English pakken, from Middle English -en, from Old English -en, from Old Norse -inn, from Proto-Norse -īna- — adjectival suffix.

မော်တော်ပီကေ (Burmese): traffic cop

Definitions

  1. traffic cop

Ancestry of “မော်တော်ပီကေ”, step by step

မော်တော်ပီကေ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ပီကေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပီကေchewing gum
2EnglishpkAbbreviation of pack
3EnglishpackA bundle made up and prepared to be carried;...
4Middle EnglishpakkenTo pack; to put into a pack or container; To...
5Middle English-enDenotes the past participle form when attached to...
6Old English-enmæġþ + API → mæġden; cocc + API → cycen, cicen;...
7Old Norse-innUsed to create adjectives from nouns, meaning...
8Proto-Norse-īna-
9Proto-Germanic-īnaz-en
10Proto-Indo-European-iHnosCreates adjectives of materials
11Proto-Indo-European-no-adjectival suffix

via Burmese မော်တော်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမော်တော်motor used in compounds
2EnglishmotorA machine or device that converts other energy...
3Middle Englishmotour
4Latinmotormover; that which moves something; first-person...
5Latin-tor-er
6Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
7Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
8Proto-Indo-European-tor-s
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -no-Every word from Middle English -enEvery word from Proto-Germanic -īnaz