Where does “ပူရှိမ်းဆီ” come from?

ပူရှိမ်းဆီ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဆီ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan tsil, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *siili.

ပူရှိမ်းဆီ (Burmese): peppermint oil

Definitions

  1. peppermint oil

Ancestry of “ပူရှိမ်းဆီ”, step by step

ပူရှိမ်းဆီ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဆီ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဆီoil, grease
2Proto-Sino-Tibetantsilfat, grease; oil
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*siili—

via Burmese ပူရှိမ်း

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပူရှိမ်းpeppery, minty
2Burmeseပူto worry; warm, hot
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric *siili →Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan tsil →Every word from Burmese ဆီ →