Where does “ဘန့်ပွေး” come from?

ဘန့်ပွေး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ပွေး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan bwəj.

ဘန့်ပွေး (Burmese): Careya arborea, the leaves of which are used to roll cheroots

Definitions

  1. Careya arborea, the leaves of which are used to roll cheroots

Ancestry of “ဘန့်ပွေး”, step by step

ဘန့်ပွေး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ပွေး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပွေးmole; bamboo rat; ringworm
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanbwəj—

via Burmese ဘန့်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဘန့်—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan bwəj →Every word from Burmese ပွေး →