Where does “မီးလျှံ” come from?

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

မီးလျှံ (Burmese): tongue of flame

Definitions

  1. tongue of flame

Ancestry of “မီးလျှံ”, step by step

မီးလျှံ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

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

via Burmese လျှံ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseလျှံto overflow, run over
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mej →Every word from Burmese မီး →