Where does “မီးပုံ” come from?

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

မီးပုံ (Burmese): bonfire, heap of fire

Definitions

  1. bonfire, heap of fire

Ancestry of “မီးပုံ”, step by step

မီးပုံ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

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

via Burmese ပုံ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပုံshape; form; figure; picture; story
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mej →Every word from Burmese မီး →