Where does “ဗိုလ်ကြီး” come from?

ဗိုလ်ကြီး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဗိုလ်, from Pali bāla, from Sanskrit बल, from Proto-Indo-Aryan bálas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian bálas, from Proto-Indo-European bel- — to dig, cut off?; strong; power, strength.

ဗိုလ်ကြီး (Burmese): captain

Definitions

  1. captain

Ancestry of “ဗိုလ်ကြီး”, step by step

ဗိုလ်ကြီး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဗိုလ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဗိုလ်commander
2Palibālachild; fool; young
3Sanskritबलpower, strength, might, vigour, force, validity;...
4Proto-Indo-Aryanbálas
5Proto-Indo-Iranianbálasstrong, forceful
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbel-to dig, cut off?; strong; power, strength

via Burmese ကြီး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကြီးbig; large; great (in magnitude); high (in degree)
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bel-Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian bálasEvery word from Proto-Indo-Aryan bálas