Where does “ဦးခိုက်” come from?

ဦးခိုက် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဦး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d-bu-s — head.

ဦးခိုက် (Burmese): to pay obeisance

Definitions

  1. to pay obeisance

Ancestry of “ဦးခိုက်”, step by step

ဦးခိုက် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဦး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဦးsir
2Proto-Sino-Tibetand-bu-shead

via Burmese ခိုက်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseခိုက်to touch, come into contact, reach (a certain level)
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d-bu-s →Every word from Burmese ဦး →