Where does “အင်တန်” come from?
အင်တန် (Burmese) comes from Burmese တန်, from English ton, from French ton, from Old French ton, from Latin tuus, from Russian туз, from Polish tuz, from Polish tu — to be able.
အင်တန် (Burmese): suitably, appropriately, in right measure
Definitions
- suitably, appropriately, in right measure
Ancestry of “အင်တန်”, step by step
အင်တန် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese တန်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | တန် | to be worth |
| 2 | English | ton | A unit of weight equal to 2240 pounds or 2000... |
| 3 | French | ton | Your, thy; Tone; Tone, shade |
| 4 | Old French | ton | your |
| 5 | Latin | tuus | your |
| 6 | Russian | туз | ace; bigwig; two-oar dinghy |
| 7 | Polish | tuz | ace; luminary, person of importance in their... |
| 8 | Polish | tu | here |
| 9 | Polish | być | to be |
| 10 | Polish | móc | to be able; may, might; to be allowed |
| 11 | Old Polish | móc | can, may, to be able to |
| 12 | Proto-Slavic | moťь | power |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | mógʰtis | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | meǵʰ- | to be able |
via Burmese အင်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | အင် | quantity, number, amount, extent, measure, standard |
| 2 | English | em | The name of the Latin-script letter M; A unit of... |
| 3 | English | them | Those ones; Him, her, or it; that one; Those |
| 4 | Middle English | þem | Third-person plural accusative pronoun: them;... |
| 5 | Old Norse | þeim | them, those |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | þaimaz | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | sa | that |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | só | this; that |