Where does “ရွှေဖရုံသီး” come from?

ရွှေဖရုံသီး (Burmese) comes from Burmese သီး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan səj, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij — to die.

ရွှေဖရုံသီး (Burmese): pumpkin

Definitions

  1. pumpkin

Ancestry of “ရွှေဖရုံသီး”, step by step

ရွှေဖရုံသီး traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese သီး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseသီးfruit; to bear fruit, to fruit; wood apple
2Proto-Sino-Tibetansəjto die
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*sijto die

via Burmese ရေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရေwater
2Old Burmeseရိယ်—

via Burmese ဖရုံ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဖရုံpumpkin (Cucurbita maxima)
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij →Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan səj →Every word from Burmese သီး →