Where does “ဟံးစုနဲၣ်ကျဲ” come from?

ဟံးစုနဲၣ်ကျဲ (S'gaw Karen) comes from Burmese ကျ, from Proto-Karen *kliᴬ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lij.

ဟံးစုနဲၣ်ကျဲ (S'gaw Karen): to guide

Definitions

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Ancestry of “ဟံးစုနဲၣ်ကျဲ”, step by step

ဟံးစုနဲၣ်ကျဲ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ကျ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကျto fall
2Proto-Karen*kliᴬ—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*s-lij—

via S'gaw Karen စု

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1S'gaw Karenစုhand

via S'gaw Karen နဲၣ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1S'gaw Karenနဲၣ်—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lij →Every word from Proto-Karen *kliᴬ →Every word from Burmese ကျ →