Where does “ရေငတ်တယ်” come from?
ရေငတ်တယ် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ရေငတ်, from Burmese ရေ, from Old Burmese ရိယ်.
ရေငတ်တယ် (Burmese): I'm thirsty
Ancestry of “ရေငတ်တယ်”, step by step
ရေငတ်တယ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese ရေငတ်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ရေငတ် | to be thirsty |
| 2 | Burmese | ရေ | water |
| 3 | Old Burmese | ရိယ် | — |
via Burmese တယ်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Burmese | တယ် | word expressing indignation, threat, frustration, etc |
| 2 | Burmese | သည် | er, -ist particle suffixed to some nouns to denote a practitioner of some trade or a person in a particular plight or situation |