Where does “ပဲစိမ်းစားဥ” come from?

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

ပဲစိမ်းစားဥ (Burmese): edible succulent tuber from a climber plant (Pachyrhizus angulatus)

Definitions

  1. edible succulent tuber from a climber plant (Pachyrhizus angulatus)

Ancestry of “ပဲစိမ်းစားဥ”, step by step

ပဲစိမ်းစားဥ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဥ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဥegg
2Burmeseဦးsir
3Proto-Sino-Tibetand-bu-shead

via Burmese ပဲစိမ်းစား

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပဲစိမ်းစားclimber cultivated for its edible, succulent, tuberous roots (Pachyrhizus angulatus)
2Burmeseစားto eat; to divide
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d-bu-s →Every word from Burmese ဦး →Every word from Burmese ဥ →