Where does “အလေ့အကျင့်” come from?

အလေ့အကျင့် (Burmese) comes from Burmese အကျင့်, 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.

အလေ့အကျင့် (Burmese): practice, training

Definitions

  1. practice, training

Ancestry of “အလေ့အကျင့်”, step by step

အလေ့အကျင့် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese အကျင့်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseအကျင့်habit, trait
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 အလေ့

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseအလေ့habit, custom, way, practice
2Burmeseလေwind, air; Used to soften an indicative sentence:...
3Old Burmeseလိယ်
4Sino-Tibetan*tV-lij
Every word from Proto-Indo-European neEvery word from Burmese အ-Every word from Sanskrit अ-