Where does “ရေဘေး” come from?

ရေဘေး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဘေး, from Pali bhāya, from Sanskrit भय, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰayHás, from Proto-Indo-European bʰeyh₂- — to fear, be afraid; to strike, hit; to hew, cut.

ရေဘေး (Burmese): disaster caused by floods, shipwreck, etc

Definitions

  1. disaster caused by floods, shipwreck, etc

Ancestry of “ရေဘေး”, step by step

ရေဘေး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဘေး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဘေးside
2Palibhāyafear, fright
3Sanskritभयfear, alarm, dread; terror, dismay, danger,...
4Proto-Indo-Iranian*bʰayHás—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeyh₂-to fear, be afraid; to strike, hit; to hew, cut

via Burmese ရေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရေwater
2Old Burmeseရိယ်—

Words derived from “ရေဘေး”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰeyh₂- →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰayHás →Every word from Sanskrit भय →