Where does “မဲဆန္ဒနယ်” come from?

မဲဆန္ဒနယ် (Burmese) comes from Burmese နယ်, from Sanskrit नायक, from Sanskrit नी, from Proto-Indo-European neyH- — to lead.

မဲဆန္ဒနယ် (Burmese): constituency

Definitions

  1. constituency

Ancestry of “မဲဆန္ဒနယ်”, step by step

မဲဆန္ဒနယ် traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese နယ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseနယ်knead; temple; state
2Sanskritनायकguide, leader; chief; lord; master; etc; leader,...
3Sanskritनीto guide, govern, direct
4Proto-Indo-EuropeanneyH-to lead

via Burmese မ

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

via Burmese ဆန္ဒ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဆန္ဒdesire, wish
2Palichandaimpulse, will, wish
Every word from Proto-Indo-European neyH- →