Where does “ရာသီရုပ်” come from?

ရာသီရုပ် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ရာသီ, 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.

ရာသီရုပ် (Burmese): zodiac sign

Definitions

  1. zodiac sign

Ancestry of “ရာသီရုပ်”, step by step

ရာသီရုပ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရာသီ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရာသီany one of the twelve signs of the zodiac;...
2Palirāsiquantity, heap
3Sanskritराशिa heap, mass, pile, group, multitude, quantity,...
4Proto-Indo-Aryanrāśíṣ—
5Proto-Indo-Iranianrāćíš—
6Proto-Indo-Iranianrać-to bind, tie
7Proto-Indo-Europeanreḱ-to bind

via Burmese ရုပ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရုပ်physical form, material; looks, appearance;...
2Palirūpaform, figure, material form
3Sanskritरूपoutward appearance, color, form, shape; right...
4Sanskritरूप्to form, shape
Every word from Proto-Indo-European reḱ- →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian rać- →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian rāćíš →