Where does “စီလုံတီး” come from?
စီလုံတီး (Burmese) comes from Burmese စီလုံ, from English Ceylon, from Portuguese Ceilão, from Old French Seilan, from Persian سیلان, from Pali sīhaḷa, from Sanskrit सिंहल, from Sanskrit सिंह.
စီလုံတီး (Burmese): Ceylon milk tea
Definitions
- Ceylon milk tea
Ancestry of “စီလုံတီး”, step by step
စီလုံတီး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese စီလုံ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | စီလုံ | — |
| 2 | English | Ceylon | Short for Ceylon tea |
| 3 | Portuguese | Ceilão | Ceylon |
| 4 | Old French | Seilan | — |
| 5 | Persian | سیلان | flow; flux |
| 6 | Pali | sīhaḷa | Sinhalese |
| 7 | Sanskrit | सिंहल | the island of Sri Lanka; name of a man; Sri... |
| 8 | Sanskrit | सिंह | the lion; the zodiacal sign Leo or its lagna;... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | sinźʰás | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | sinȷ́ʰás | lion |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | *sinǵʰós- | — |