Where does “ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်” come from?

ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် (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.

ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် (Burmese): brigadier general

Definitions

  1. brigadier general

Ancestry of “ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်”, step by step

ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် 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 ချုပ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseချုပ်to sew; to confine, to detain; to control, to...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bel-
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