Where does “မီးလင်းဖို” come from?

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

မီးလင်းဖို (Burmese): (open) fireplace; brazier

Definitions

  1. (open) fireplace; brazier

Ancestry of “မီးလင်းဖို”, step by step

မီးလင်းဖို traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

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

via Burmese ဖို

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဖိုkiln

via Burmese လင်း

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseလင်းbright
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