Where does “ခဲလံကျည်တောက်” come from?
ခဲလံကျည်တောက် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ကျည်တောက်, from Burmese တောက်, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan duk ~ tuk — poison; poisonous, toxic; to poison.
ခဲလံကျည်တောက် (Burmese): a type of sticky rice cooked in a bamboo tube
Definitions
- a type of sticky rice cooked in a bamboo tube
Ancestry of “ခဲလံကျည်တောက်”, step by step
ခဲလံကျည်တောက် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese ကျည်တောက်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ကျည်တောက် | short length of bamboo closed at one end |
| 2 | Burmese | တောက် | to suffer from toxicity, be poisonous |
| 3 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | duk ~ tuk | poison; poisonous, toxic; to poison |
via Burmese ၶဝ်ႈလၢမ်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ၶဝ်ႈလၢမ် | — |