Where does “မီးခြစ်” come from?

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

မီးခြစ် (Burmese): box or book of matches, lighter

Definitions

  1. box or book of matches, lighter

Ancestry of “မီးခြစ်”, step by step

မီးခြစ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

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

via Burmese ခြစ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseခြစ်to scrape, shred (coconut, green fruit, etc.)

Words derived from “မီးခြစ်”

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