Where does “ရာသီ” come from?

ရာသီ (Burmese) comes from Pali rāsi, from Sanskrit राशि, from Proto-Indo-Aryan rāśíṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian rāćíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian rać-, from Proto-Indo-European reḱ- — to bind.

ရာသီ (Burmese): any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac;...

Definitions

  1. any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac;...

Ancestry of “ရာသီ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Palirāsiquantity, heap
2Sanskritराशिa heap, mass, pile, group, multitude, quantity,...
3Proto-Indo-Aryanrāśíṣ—
4Proto-Indo-Iranianrāćíš—
5Proto-Indo-Iranianrać-to bind, tie
6Proto-Indo-Europeanreḱ-to bind

Words derived from “ရာသီ”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European reḱ- →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian rać- →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian rāćíš →