Where does “ရင်းငွေ” come from?

ရင်းငွေ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ငွေ, from Old Burmese ငုယ်, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-ŋurl — silver.

ရင်းငွေ (Burmese): capital, investment

Definitions

  1. capital, investment

Ancestry of “ရင်းငွေ”, step by step

ရင်းငွေ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ငွေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseငွေsilver; money
2Old Burmeseငုယ်silver
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*d-ŋurlsilver

via Burmese ရင်း

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရင်းto put in, invest
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-ŋurl →Every word from Old Burmese ငုယ် →Every word from Burmese ငွေ →