Where does “ရှာမှီး” come from?

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

ရှာမှီး (Burmese): to acquire (knowledge, wealth, etc.)

Definitions

  1. to acquire (knowledge, wealth, etc.)

Ancestry of “ရှာမှီး”, step by step

ရှာမှီး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရာ

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

via Burmese မှီး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမှီးto base on, be based on
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *pV-rja(k) →Every word from Old Burmese ရျာ →Every word from Burmese ရာ →