Where does “ကွေလာပေးစ” come from?

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

Ancestry of “ကွေလာပေးစ”, 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