Where does “ရွှေနီ” come from?

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

ရွှေနီ (Burmese): red banana, a local cultivar grown in Myanmar

Definitions

  1. red banana, a local cultivar grown in Myanmar

Ancestry of “ရွှေနီ”, step by step

ရွှေနီ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရေwater
2Old Burmeseရိယ်—

via Burmese နီ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseနီred
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