Where does “ရှာဖွေ” come from?

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

Ancestry of “ရှာဖွေ”, step by step

ရှာဖွေ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရာ

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

via Burmese ဖွေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဖွေonly used in ရှာဖွေ and derivatives
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *pV-rja(k) →Every word from Old Burmese ရျာ →Every word from Burmese ရာ →