Where does “သင်္ဂဟတရားလေးပါး” come from?

သင်္ဂဟတရားလေးပါး (Burmese) comes from Burmese လေး, from Old Burmese လိယ်, from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij.

သင်္ဂဟတရားလေးပါး (Burmese): four rules of good social relations

Definitions

  1. four rules of good social relations

Ancestry of “သင်္ဂဟတရားလေးပါး”, step by step

သင်္ဂဟတရားလေးပါး traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese လေး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseလေးfour; heavy; bow
2Old Burmeseလိယ်—
3Sino-Tibetan*tV-lij—

via Burmese သင်္ဂဟ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseသင်္ဂဟfriend
2Palisaṅgaha—

via Burmese ပါး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပါးthin; cheek
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij →Every word from Old Burmese လိယ် →Every word from Burmese လေး →