Where does “သဲကန္တာရ” come from?

သဲကန္တာရ (Burmese) comes from Burmese သဲ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan (s/z)a-j — earth, sand, soil.

သဲကန္တာရ (Burmese): desert, sandy region

Definitions

  1. desert, sandy region

Ancestry of “သဲကန္တာရ”, step by step

သဲကန္တာရ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese သဲ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseသဲsand
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan(s/z)a-jearth, sand, soil

via Burmese ကန္တာရ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကန္တာရdifficult journey; desert
2Palikantāradesert; waste; wilderness; difficult to pass;...
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