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Where does “ရှင်” come from?

ရှင် (Burmese) comes from Burmese အသျှင်, from Burmese အ-, from Pali a-, from Sanskrit अ-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian a-, from Proto-Indo-European n̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ne — not.

ရှင် (Burmese): you; sir, madam; to live, be alive

Definitions

  1. you; sir, madam; to live, be alive

Ancestry of “ရှင်”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseအသျှင်—
2Burmeseအ-used to make nouns from verbs, from adjectives or...
3Palia-no; not; non; etc; not; lacking; without; etc
4Sanskritअ-un-, not; Used in the formation of imperfect,...
5Proto-Indo-Iraniana-un-, a-
6Proto-Indo-Europeann̥-not, un-
7Proto-Indo-Europeannenot

Words derived from “ရှင်”

  • ရုပ်ရှင်ရုံ
  • ရှင်တို့
  • ရုပ်ရှင်
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