Where does “ပင်နီ” come from?

ပင်နီ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ပင်, from Sanskrit वृक्ष, from Proto-Indo-Aryan wr̥ṭṣás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian wr̥ćšás — tree.

ပင်နီ (Burmese): cloth woven from fawn-colored cotton

Definitions

  1. cloth woven from fawn-colored cotton

Ancestry of “ပင်နီ”, step by step

ပင်နီ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ပင်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပင်plant; trees; tree
2Sanskritवृक्षa tree, any tree bearing visible flowers and...
3Proto-Indo-Aryanwr̥ṭṣás—
4Proto-Indo-Iranianwr̥ćšástree

via Burmese နီ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseနီred
Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian wr̥ćšás →Every word from Proto-Indo-Aryan wr̥ṭṣás →Every word from Sanskrit वृक्ष →