Where does “နံရိုး” come from?
နံရိုး (Burmese) comes from Burmese နံ, from Pali nāma, from Sanskrit नामन्, from Proto-Indo-Aryan Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European h₁nómn̥, from Proto-Indo-European h₃neh₃- — to name.
နံရိုး (Burmese): rib
Definitions
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Ancestry of “နံရိုး”, step by step
နံရိုး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese နံ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | နံ | to give off an offensive smell |
| 2 | Pali | nāma | name; immaterial factors such as consciousness... |
| 3 | Sanskrit | नामन् | name, personal name, appellation; a... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | Hnā́ma | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | Hnā́ma | name |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁nómn̥ | name |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃neh₃- | to name |