Where does “ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး” come from?

ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဗိုလ်မှူး, 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.

ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး (Burmese): colonel

Definitions

  1. colonel

Ancestry of “ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး”, step by step

ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဗိုလ်မှူး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဗိုလ်မှူးmajor
2Burmeseဗိုလ်commander
3Palibālachild; fool; young
4Sanskritबलpower, strength, might, vigour, force, validity;...
5Proto-Indo-Aryanbálas—
6Proto-Indo-Iranianbálasstrong, forceful
7Proto-Indo-Europeanbel-to dig, cut off?; strong; power, strength

via Burmese ကြီး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကြီးbig; large; great (in magnitude); high (in degree)

Words derived from “ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bel- →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian bálas →Every word from Proto-Indo-Aryan bálas →