Where does “ရေဆေး” come from?

ရေဆေး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဆေး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-tsəj — medicine; juice; paint.

ရေဆေး (Burmese): watercolor

Definitions

  1. watercolor

Ancestry of “ရေဆေး”, step by step

ရေဆေး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဆေး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဆေးmedicine; paint; tobacco
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanr-tsəjmedicine; juice; paint

via Burmese ရေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရေwater
2Old Burmeseရိယ်—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-tsəj →Every word from Burmese ဆေး →