Where does “တၢ်သူၣ်ထီၣ်” come from?

တၢ်သူၣ်ထီၣ် (S'gaw Karen) comes from S'gaw Karen သူၣ်ထီၣ်, from S'gaw Karen ထီၣ်, from Proto-Karen *thaŋᴮ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tVŋ — upper part; rise; raise; top; summit.

တၢ်သူၣ်ထီၣ် (S'gaw Karen): a building

Definitions

  1. a building

Ancestry of “တၢ်သူၣ်ထီၣ်”, step by step

တၢ်သူၣ်ထီၣ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via S'gaw Karen သူၣ်ထီၣ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1S'gaw Karenသူၣ်ထီၣ်to build
2S'gaw Karenထီၣ်to ascend; to go up; to climb
3Proto-Karen*thaŋᴮto ascend; to go up; to rise
4Proto-Sino-Tibetan*tVŋupper part; rise; raise; top; summit

via S'gaw Karen တၢ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1S'gaw Karenတၢ်thing, object
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tVŋ →Every word from Proto-Karen *thaŋᴮ →Every word from S'gaw Karen ထီၣ် →