Where does “ရှေးခေတ်ဂရိ” come from?

ရှေးခေတ်ဂရိ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ခေတ်, from Pali khetta, from Sanskrit क्षेत्र, from Proto-Indo-Aryan ṭṣáytram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian ćšáytram, from Proto-Indo-European tḱey- — to cultivate; to settle; to live.

ရှေးခေတ်ဂရိ (Burmese): Ancient Greece

Definitions

  1. Ancient Greece

Ancestry of “ရှေးခေတ်ဂရိ”, step by step

ရှေးခေတ်ဂရိ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ခေတ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseခေတ်extent, domain
2Palikhettafield; place of production
3Sanskritक्षेत्रland, soil, ground; field, cultivated area; area,...
4Proto-Indo-Aryanṭṣáytram
5Proto-Indo-Iranianćšáytramland, region
6Proto-Indo-Europeantḱey-to cultivate; to settle; to live

via Burmese ရေး

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

via Burmese ဂရိ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1BurmeseဂရိGreek
Every word from Proto-Indo-European tḱey-Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian ćšáytramEvery word from Proto-Indo-Aryan ṭṣáytram
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