Where does “စာရေ” come from?

စာရေ (Mon) comes from Burmese စာရေး, from Burmese ရေး, from Old Burmese ရိယ်း, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-rəj — to draw, to mark; draw, mark, boundary.

စာရေ (Mon): clerk

Definitions

  1. clerk

Ancestry of “စာရေ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseစာရေးclerk; to write
2Burmeseရေးto write
3Old Burmeseရိယ်း—
4Proto-Sino-Tibetanb-rəjto draw, to mark; draw, mark, boundary
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-rəj →Every word from Old Burmese ရိယ်း →Every word from Burmese ရေး →