Where does “ဆိုးဆေး” come from?

ဆိုးဆေး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဆေး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-tsəj — medicine; juice; paint.

ဆိုးဆေး (Burmese): dye

Definitions

  1. dye

Ancestry of “ဆိုးဆေး”, step by step

ဆိုးဆေး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဆေး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဆေးmedicine; paint; tobacco
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanr-tsəjmedicine; juice; paint

via Burmese ဆိုး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဆိုးbad
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-tsəj →Every word from Burmese ဆေး →