Where does “ခိၣ်ဆူၣ်” come from?

ခိၣ်ဆူၣ် (S'gaw Karen) comes from S'gaw Karen ခိၣ်, from Proto-Karen *khuᴮ.

ခိၣ်ဆူၣ် (S'gaw Karen): hair

Definitions

  1. hair

Ancestry of “ခိၣ်ဆူၣ်”, step by step

ခိၣ်ဆူၣ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via S'gaw Karen ခိၣ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1S'gaw Karenခိၣ်a head; the part of the body containing the brain, eyes and mouth
2Proto-Karen*khuᴮ—

via S'gaw Karen ဆူၣ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1S'gaw Karenဆူၣ်hair
Every word from Proto-Karen *khuᴮ →Every word from S'gaw Karen ခိၣ် →