Where does “ရှေးစကား” come from?

ရှေးစကား (Burmese) comes from Burmese ရေး, from Old Burmese ရိယ်း, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-rəj — to draw, to mark; draw, mark, boundary.

ရှေးစကား (Burmese): saying, adage

Definitions

  1. saying, adage

Ancestry of “ရှေးစကား”, step by step

ရှေးစကား traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရေး

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

via Burmese စကား

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseစကားlanguage; word
2Palicampaka—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-rəj →Every word from Old Burmese ရိယ်း →Every word from Burmese ရေး →