Where does “ခရမ်းသီး” come from?

ခရမ်းသီး (Burmese) comes from Burmese သီး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan səj, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij — to die.

ခရမ်းသီး (Burmese): eggplant

Definitions

  1. eggplant

Ancestry of “ခရမ်းသီး”, step by step

ခရမ်းသီး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese သီး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseသီးfruit; to bear fruit, to fruit; wood apple
2Proto-Sino-Tibetansəjto die
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*sijto die

via Burmese ခရမ်း

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseခရမ်းpurple
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij →Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan səj →Every word from Burmese သီး →