Where does “ရေယုန်” come from?

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

ရေယုန် (Burmese): herpes

Definitions

  1. herpes

Ancestry of “ရေယုန်”, step by step

ရေယုန် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရေwater
2Old Burmeseရိယ်—

via Burmese ယုန်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseယုန်rabbit, hare
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanb-jəw-n ~ bwəjrat, bamboo rat; rabbit, hare
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