Where does “ရေငုပ်” come from?

ရေငုပ် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ရေ, from Old Burmese ရိယ်.

ရေငုပ် (Burmese): to dive, submerge

Definitions

  1. to dive, submerge

Ancestry of “ရေငုပ်”, step by step

ရေငုပ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရေwater
2Old Burmeseရိယ်—

via Burmese ငုပ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseငုပ်to dive (into deep water), submerge
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