Where does “မုန့်ဦးနှောက်” come from?

မုန့်ဦးနှောက် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဦးနှောက်, from Burmese ဦး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d-bu-s — head.

မုန့်ဦးနှောက် (Burmese): white rice pudding with coconut gravy

Definitions

  1. white rice pudding with coconut gravy

Ancestry of “မုန့်ဦးနှောက်”, step by step

မုန့်ဦးနှောက် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဦးနှောက်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဦးနှောက်brain
2Burmeseဦးsir
3Proto-Sino-Tibetand-bu-shead

via Burmese မုန့်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမုန့်snack
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d-bu-sEvery word from Burmese ဦးEvery word from Burmese ဦးနှောက်