Where does “တောင်ရိုး” come from?

တောင်ရိုး (Burmese) comes from Burmese တောင်, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman m/r-duŋ.

တောင်ရိုး (Burmese): Taungyoe: name of one of the ethnic groups in the Union of Myanmar speaking an archaic form of Burmese (found in parts of Southern Shan State)

Definitions

  1. Taungyoe: name of one of the ethnic groups in the Union of Myanmar speaking an archaic form of Burmese (found in parts of Southern Shan State)

Ancestry of “တောင်ရိုး”, step by step

တောင်ရိုး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese တောင်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseတောင်mountain; south; a cubit
2Proto-Tibeto-Burmanm/r-duŋ—

via Burmese ရိုး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရိုးsimple; honest; guileless
2Old Burmeseရိုဝ်း—
Every word from Proto-Tibeto-Burman m/r-duŋ →Every word from Burmese တောင် →