Where does “မီးတောင်” come from?

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

မီးတောင် (Burmese): volcano

Definitions

  1. volcano

Ancestry of “မီးတောင်”, step by step

မီးတောင် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

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

via Burmese တောင်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseတောင်mountain; south; a cubit
2Proto-Tibeto-Burmanm/r-duŋ—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mej →Every word from Burmese မီး →