Where does “ဇနီး” come from?
ဇနီး (Burmese) comes from Sanskrit जनी, from Sanskrit जनि, from Proto-Indo-Iranian ǰánHs, from Proto-Indo-European gʷḗn, from Proto-Indo-European gʷen- — woman.
ဇနီး (Burmese): wife
Ancestry of “ဇနီး”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Sanskrit | जनी | a woman, wife |
| 2 | Sanskrit | जनि | woman, wife; birth, production; a kind of... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | ǰánHs | woman; wife |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷḗn | woman |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷen- | woman |