Where does “မော်တော်ယာဉ်” come from?
မော်တော်ယာဉ် (Burmese) comes from Burmese မော်တော်, from English motor, from Middle English motour, from Latin motor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
မော်တော်ယာဉ် (Burmese): automobile; car
Definitions
- automobile; car
Ancestry of “မော်တော်ယာဉ်”, step by step
မော်တော်ယာဉ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese မော်တော်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | မော်တော် | motor used in compounds |
| 2 | English | motor | A machine or device that converts other energy... |
| 3 | Middle English | motour | — |
| 4 | Latin | motor | mover; that which moves something; first-person... |
| 5 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Burmese ယာဉ်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ယာဉ် | vehicle, craft; elephant, horse, etc. used for... |
| 2 | Pali | yāna | going, journey, motion; means of conveyance;... |
| 3 | Sanskrit | यान | carriage, vehicle, mode of transport; moving,... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | yáHnam | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | yáHnam | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | yéh₂-nom | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | yeh₂- | to go; to go in, enter; to ride, to travel |