Where does “ရေသူမ” come from?

ရေသူမ (Burmese) comes from Burmese မ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ma — no, not, negative, not have, none.

ရေသူမ (Burmese): mermaid

Definitions

  1. mermaid

Ancestry of “ရေသူမ”, step by step

ရေသူမ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese မ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမnot; miss; Alternative form of မယ်
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanmano, not, negative, not have, none

via Burmese သူ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseသူhe; she; it
2Proto-Sino-Tibetansu ~ s-luwho; indefinite pronoun; remote third-person...

via Burmese ရေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရေwater
2Old Burmeseရိယ်—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ma →Every word from Burmese မ →