Where does “သဲနာရီ” come from?

သဲနာရီ (Burmese) comes from Burmese နာရီ, from Sanskrit नाडी, from Proto-Indo-Aryan nadíH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian nadíH, from Proto-Indo-European ned-íh₂, from Proto-Indo-European ned- — to be wet; wet; to tie together.

သဲနာရီ (Burmese): hourglass

Definitions

  1. hourglass

Ancestry of “သဲနာရီ”, step by step

သဲနာရီ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese နာရီ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseနာရီclock, watch; hour; woman
2Sanskritनाडीtube; a measure of time; flute, pipe, tube,...
3Proto-Indo-AryannadíH—
4Proto-Indo-IraniannadíHriver
5Proto-Indo-Europeanned-íh₂—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanned-to be wet; wet; to tie together

via Burmese သဲ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseသဲsand
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan(s/z)a-jearth, sand, soil
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ned- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European ned-íh₂ →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian nadíH →