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

disaster caused by floods, shipwreck, etc

Ancestry of “ရေဘေး”, step by step

ရေဘေး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဘေး

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Burmese	ဘေး	side
2	Pali	bhāya	fear, fright
3	Sanskrit	भय	fear, alarm, dread; terror, dismay, danger,...
4	Proto-Indo-Iranian	*bʰayHás	—
5	Proto-Indo-European	bʰeyh₂-	to fear, be afraid; to strike, hit; to hew, cut

via Burmese ရေ

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Burmese	ရေ	water
2	Old Burmese	ရိယ်	—

Words derived from “ရေဘေး”

ရေဘေးဒုက္ခသည်

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