Where does “ရေးချ” come from?

ရေးချ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ရေး, from Old Burmese ရိယ်း, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-rəj — to draw, to mark; draw, mark, boundary.

ရေးချ (Burmese): the name diacritics ါ and ာ presenting /a/ sound

Definitions

  1. the name diacritics ါ and ာ presenting /a/ sound

Ancestry of “ရေးချ”, step by step

ရေးချ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရေး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရေးto write
2Old Burmeseရိယ်း—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanb-rəjto draw, to mark; draw, mark, boundary

via Burmese ချ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseချto cause to fall, put down, bring down, drop, lower
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