Where does “အကျနေ့” come from?

အကျနေ့ (Burmese) comes from Burmese အကျ, from Burmese အ-, from Pali a-, from Sanskrit अ-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian a-, from Proto-Indo-European n̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ne — not.

အကျနေ့ (Burmese): the first day of Thingyan

Definitions

  1. the first day of Thingyan

Ancestry of “အကျနေ့”, step by step

အကျနေ့ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese အကျ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseအကျfall, drop, descent
2Burmeseအ-used to make nouns from verbs, from adjectives or...
3Palia-no; not; non; etc; not; lacking; without; etc
4Sanskritअ-un-, not; Used in the formation of imperfect,...
5Proto-Indo-Iraniana-un-, a-
6Proto-Indo-Europeann̥-not, un-
7Proto-Indo-Europeannenot

via Burmese နေ့

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseနေ့daytime; day
2Burmeseနေsun; to stay; to live, dwell
3Proto-Sino-Tibetang-na-sto stay, to live, to dwell, to be; to stay, to...
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