Where does “ကမ္ဗလာ” come from?
ကမ္ဗလာ (Burmese) comes from Pali kambala, from Russian камбала, from Finnish kampela, from Finnish kampi, from Proto-Finnic kampi.
ကမ္ဗလာ (Burmese): woolen rug; orange
Ancestry of “ကမ္ဗလာ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Pali | kambala | flannel; wool; woolen; woolen clothes |
| 2 | Russian | камбала | flounder, plaice, sole |
| 3 | Finnish | kampela | flounder, fluke, European flounder; flatfish |
| 4 | Finnish | kampi | crank |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | kampi | — |