Where does “ကွေလာပေး” come from?

ကွေလာပေး (Burmese) comes from Indonesian kue lapis, from Indonesian lapis, from Malay lapis, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapis.

ကွေလာပေး (Burmese): kue lapis, a steamed rice flour snack

Definitions

  1. kue lapis, a steamed rice flour snack

Ancestry of “ကွေလာပေး”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesiankue lapiskue lapis, a steamed rice flour snack
2Indonesianlapislayer, lining; row; stratum
3Malaylapislayer
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*lapis—
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapis →