Where does “မီးပုံး” come from?

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

မီးပုံး (Burmese): paper lantern, lantern

Definitions

  1. paper lantern, lantern

Ancestry of “မီးပုံး”, step by step

မီးပုံး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

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

via Burmese ပုံး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပုံးportable container like a bucket, tin, box, etc
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