Where does “မီးခတ်” come from?

မီးခတ် (Burmese) comes from Burmese မီး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mej — fire.

မီးခတ် (Burmese): tinderbox; to strike steel against flint

Definitions

  1. tinderbox; to strike steel against flint

Ancestry of “မီးခတ်”, step by step

မီးခတ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမီးfire; light; brilliance
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanmejfire

via Burmese ခတ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseခတ်to beat; to strike
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mej →Every word from Burmese မီး →