Where does “တီးလုံး” come from?
တီးလုံး (Burmese) comes from Burmese တီး, from English TEA, from Dutch thee, from Malay teh, from Malay putih, from Classical Malay putih, from Proto-Malayic putih, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (ma-)putiq — white.
တီးလုံး (Burmese): an instrumental rendition of a tune, melody; instrumental theme or piece (of music)
Definitions
- an instrumental rendition of a tune, melody; instrumental theme or piece (of music)
Ancestry of “တီးလုံး”, step by step
တီးလုံး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese တီး
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | တီး | to play (a musical instrument) |
| 2 | English | TEA | Training and employment agency; Acronym of... |
| 3 | Dutch | thee | tea |
| 4 | Malay | teh | tea |
| 5 | Malay | putih | white |
| 6 | Classical Malay | putih | white |
| 7 | Proto-Malayic | putih | white |
| 8 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | (ma-)putiq | white |
via Burmese လုံး
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | လုံး | round, spherical |