Where does “မီးလောင်” come from?

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

မီးလောင် (Burmese): to burn (by fire), be on fire, be burnt, catch fire

Definitions

  1. to burn (by fire), be on fire, be burnt, catch fire

Ancestry of “မီးလောင်”, step by step

မီးလောင် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

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

via Burmese လောင်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseလောင်to burn, be burnt
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