Where does “ရေခဲတောင်” come from?
ရေခဲတောင် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ရေ, from Old Burmese ရိယ်.
ရေခဲတောင် (Burmese): iceberg
Definitions
- iceberg
Ancestry of “ရေခဲတောင်”, step by step
ရေခဲတောင် traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese တောင်
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | တောင် | mountain; south; a cubit |
| 2 | Proto-Tibeto-Burman | m/r-duŋ | — |
via Burmese ခဲ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ခဲ | to freeze |