Where does “ကြေးနီ” come from?

ကြေးနီ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ကြေး, from Old Burmese ကြိယ်း, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan grəj — copper.

ကြေးနီ (Burmese): copper

Definitions

  1. copper

Ancestry of “ကြေးနီ”, step by step

ကြေးနီ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ကြေး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကြေးcopper; brass; bronze
2Old Burmeseကြိယ်း—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetangrəjcopper

via Burmese နီ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseနီred
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan grəj →Every word from Old Burmese ကြိယ်း →Every word from Burmese ကြေး →