Where does “နံရံ” come from?

နံရံ (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.

နံရံ (Burmese): wall (of a building)

Definitions

  1. wall (of a building)

Ancestry of “နံရံ”, step by step

နံရံ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese နံ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseနံto give off an offensive smell
2Palināmaname; immaterial factors such as consciousness...
3Sanskritनामन्name, personal name, appellation; a...
4Proto-Indo-AryanHnā́ma
5Proto-Indo-IranianHnā́maname
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁nómn̥name
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃neh₃-to name

via Burmese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseto succeed, manage, be able; to be permitted, be...
2Proto-Austroasiatic*roajfly (insect)
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₃neh₃-