Where does “တရုတ်ဆီးသီး” come from?

တရုတ်ဆီးသီး (Burmese) comes from Burmese သီး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan səj, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij — to die.

တရုတ်ဆီးသီး (Burmese): lychee

Definitions

  1. lychee

Ancestry of “တရုတ်ဆီးသီး”, step by step

တရုတ်ဆီးသီး traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese သီး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseသီးfruit; to bear fruit, to fruit; wood apple
2Proto-Sino-Tibetansəjto die
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*sijto die

via Burmese ဆီး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဆီးto bar, obstruct, block

via Burmese တရုတ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseတရုတ်Chinese language
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij →Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan səj →Every word from Burmese သီး →