Where does “ခဲယမ်းမီးကျောက်” come from?

ခဲယမ်းမီးကျောက် (Burmese) comes from Burmese မီး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mej — fire.

ခဲယမ်းမီးကျောက် (Burmese): ammunition

Definitions

  1. ammunition

Ancestry of “ခဲယမ်းမီးကျောက်”, step by step

ခဲယမ်းမီးကျောက် traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမီးfire; light; brilliance
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanmejfire

via Burmese ယမ်း

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseယမ်းgunpowder; to wave
2Proto-Sino-Tibetang-rjumsalt; salty, salted; to salt

via Burmese ခဲ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseခဲto freeze
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