Where does “မီးသင်္ဘော” come from?

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

မီးသင်္ဘော (Burmese): steamer

Definitions

  1. steamer

Ancestry of “မီးသင်္ဘော”, step by step

မီးသင်္ဘော traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မီး

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

via Burmese သင်္ဘော

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseသင်္ဘောship; vessel; papaya; pawpaw
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