Where does “မီးပုံးပျံ” come from?

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

မီးပုံးပျံ (Burmese): hot air balloon

Definitions

  1. hot air balloon

Ancestry of “မီးပုံးပျံ”, step by step

မီးပုံးပျံ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

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

via Burmese ပျံ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပျံto fly

via Burmese ပုံး

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