Where does “အလှကုန်” come from?

အလှကုန် (Burmese) comes from Burmese အလှ, 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.

အလှကုန် (Burmese): cosmetics

Definitions

  1. cosmetics

Ancestry of “အလှကုန်”, step by step

အလှကုန် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese အလှ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseအလှbeauty, good looks
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 ကုန်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကုန်goods; commodity; merchandise
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan(m-)kulall; twenty
Every word from Proto-Indo-European neEvery word from Burmese အ-Every word from Sanskrit अ-