Where does “သိလ့ၣ်” come from?

သိလ့ၣ် (S'gaw Karen) comes from S'gaw Karen လ့ၣ်, from Proto-Karen *hlajᴮ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s/g-ljak.

သိလ့ၣ် (S'gaw Karen): a car

Definitions

  1. a car

Ancestry of “သိလ့ၣ်”, step by step

သိလ့ၣ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via S'gaw Karen လ့ၣ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1S'gaw Karenလ့ၣ်a cart
2Proto-Karen*hlajᴮ—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*m/s/g-ljak—

via S'gaw Karen သိ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1S'gaw Karenသိsheep; fat; oil
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s/g-ljak →Every word from Proto-Karen *hlajᴮ →Every word from S'gaw Karen လ့ၣ် →