Where does “ပန်းကုံး” come from?

ပန်းကုံး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ပန်း, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *baːr.

ပန်းကုံး (Burmese): garland, wreath

Definitions

  1. garland, wreath

Ancestry of “ပန်းကုံး”, step by step

ပန်းကုံး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ပန်း

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပန်းflower; floral pattern; tails
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*baːr—

via Burmese ကုံး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကုံးto string, thread, compose
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *baːr →Every word from Burmese ပန်း →