Where does “ရွာစား” come from?

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

ရွာစား (Burmese): duke or duchess who possesses a village as an appenage

Definitions

  1. duke or duchess who possesses a village as an appenage

Ancestry of “ရွာစား”, step by step

ရွာစား traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရာ

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

via Burmese စား

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseစားto eat; to divide
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *pV-rja(k) →Every word from Old Burmese ရျာ →Every word from Burmese ရာ →