Where does “ပိန်းဥမုန့်” come from?

ပိန်းဥမုန့် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ပိန်းဥ, from Burmese ဥ, from Burmese ဦး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d-bu-s — head.

ပိန်းဥမုန့် (Burmese): taro cake

Definitions

  1. taro cake

Ancestry of “ပိန်းဥမုန့်”, step by step

ပိန်းဥမုန့် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ပိန်းဥ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပိန်းဥrootstock of the taro plant (Colocasia antiquorum)
2Burmeseဥegg
3Burmeseဦးsir
4Proto-Sino-Tibetand-bu-shead

via Burmese မုန့်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမုန့်snack
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d-bu-s →Every word from Burmese ဦး →Every word from Burmese ဥ →