Where does “မေးစေ့” come from?

မေးစေ့ (Burmese) comes from Burmese မေး, from Sino-Tibetan *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l.

မေးစေ့ (Burmese): chin

Definitions

  1. chin

Ancestry of “မေးစေ့”, step by step

မေးစေ့ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မေး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမေးto ask
2Sino-Tibetan*s/r-m(u/i/ja)l—

via Burmese စေ့

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseစေ့protuberance; seed
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l →Every word from Burmese မေး →
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