Where does “မီးခိုး” come from?

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

မီးခိုး (Burmese): smoke

Definitions

  1. smoke

Ancestry of “မီးခိုး”, step by step

မီးခိုး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

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

via Burmese ခိုး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseခိုးto steal, pilfer, burgle

Words derived from “မီးခိုး”

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