Where does “ဘလေး” come from?

ဘလေး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဘ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan pʷa — male, father, third-person pronoun.

ဘလေး (Burmese): uncle, specifically father's younger brother

Definitions

  1. uncle, specifically father's younger brother

Ancestry of “ဘလေး”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1BurmeseဘBha, the 25th letter of the Burmese alphabet
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanpʷamale, father, third-person pronoun
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan pʷa →Every word from Burmese ဘ →
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