Where does “သော့တံ” come from?

သော့တံ (Burmese) comes from Burmese သော့, from Old Chinese 鎖.

သော့တံ (Burmese): key

Definitions

  1. key

Ancestry of “သော့တံ”, step by step

သော့တံ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese သော့

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseသော့key; lock; to be quick, to be rapid
2Old Chinese

via Burmese တံ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseတံrodlike thing; anything rodlike; accumulation;...
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