Where does “မီးဖို” come from?

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

မီးဖို (Burmese): to make a fire, build a fire

Definitions

  1. to make a fire, build a fire

Ancestry of “မီးဖို”, step by step

မီးဖို traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

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

via Burmese ဖို

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဖိုkiln

Words derived from “မီးဖို”

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