Where does “ရေရာ” come from?

ရေရာ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ရာ, from Old Burmese ရျာ, from Sino-Tibetan *pV-rja(k).

ရေရာ (Burmese): to be definite, be certain

Definitions

  1. to be definite, be certain

Ancestry of “ရေရာ”, step by step

ရေရာ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရာ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရာhundred
2Old Burmeseရျာ—
3Sino-Tibetan*pV-rja(k)—

via Burmese ရေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရေwater
2Old Burmeseရိယ်—
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *pV-rja(k) →Every word from Old Burmese ရျာ →Every word from Burmese ရာ →