Where does “ရှေးဟောင်း” come from?

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

ရှေးဟောင်း (Burmese): ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic

Definitions

  1. ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic

Ancestry of “ရှေးဟောင်း”, step by step

ရှေးဟောင်း 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 ဟောင်း

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဟောင်းold of an object, concept, etc.: having existed for a relatively long period of time, ancient

Words derived from “ရှေးဟောင်း”

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-rəj →Every word from Old Burmese ရိယ်း →Every word from Burmese ရေး →