Where does “မီးပူ” come from?

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

မီးပူ (Burmese): iron (for ironing clothes)

Definitions

  1. iron (for ironing clothes)

Ancestry of “မီးပူ”, step by step

မီးပူ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

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

via Burmese ပူ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပူto worry; warm, hot

Words derived from “မီးပူ”

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mej →Every word from Burmese မီး →