Where does “သ့ၣ်ပှၢ်ဝၣ်ပှၢ်” come from?

သ့ၣ်ပှၢ်ဝၣ်ပှၢ် (S'gaw Karen) comes from S'gaw Karen ဝၣ်, from Proto-Karen *hwaᴮ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rV-pa — bamboo.

သ့ၣ်ပှၢ်ဝၣ်ပှၢ် (S'gaw Karen): forest

Definitions

  1. forest

Ancestry of “သ့ၣ်ပှၢ်ဝၣ်ပှၢ်”, step by step

သ့ၣ်ပှၢ်ဝၣ်ပှၢ် traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via S'gaw Karen ဝၣ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1S'gaw Karenဝၣ်bamboo
2Proto-Karen*hwaᴮ—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*rV-pabamboo

via S'gaw Karen ပှၢ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1S'gaw Karenပှၢ်to be old (of people), to be mature

via S'gaw Karen သ့ၣ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1S'gaw Karenသ့ၣ်a tree
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rV-pa →Every word from Proto-Karen *hwaᴮ →Every word from S'gaw Karen ဝၣ် →