Where does “ပဲနီလေး” come from?
ပဲနီလေး (Burmese) comes from Burmese လေး, from Old Burmese လိယ်, from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij.
ပဲနီလေး (Burmese): lentil
Definitions
- lentil
Ancestry of “ပဲနီလေး”, step by step
ပဲနီလေး traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese လေး
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | လေး | four; heavy; bow |
| 2 | Old Burmese | လိယ် | — |
| 3 | Sino-Tibetan | *tV-lij | — |
via Burmese ပဲ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ပဲ | pea, bean, legume, pulse; anna |
via Burmese နီ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | နီ | red |