Where does “ရှေးဆန်” come from?

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

ရှေးဆန် (Burmese): to be old-fashioned

Definitions

  1. to be old-fashioned

Ancestry of “ရှေးဆန်”, step by step

ရှေးဆန် 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 ဆန်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဆန်uncooked rice
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-rəj →Every word from Old Burmese ရိယ်း →Every word from Burmese ရေး →