Where does “နတ်ဆိုး” come from?

နတ်ဆိုး (Burmese) comes from Burmese နတ်, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nat — illness.

နတ်ဆိုး (Burmese): evil spirit

Definitions

  1. evil spirit

Ancestry of “နတ်ဆိုး”, step by step

နတ်ဆိုး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese နတ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseနတ်nat
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*natillness

via Burmese ဆိုး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဆိုးbad
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nat →Every word from Burmese နတ် →