Where does “ရှေ့ဆီး” come from?

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

ရှေ့ဆီး (Burmese): name of the Burmese diacritic း

Definitions

  1. name of the Burmese diacritic း

Ancestry of “ရှေ့ဆီး”, step by step

ရှေ့ဆီး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရေwater
2Old Burmeseရိယ်—

via Burmese ဆီး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဆီးto bar, obstruct, block
Every word from Old Burmese ရိယ် →Every word from Burmese ရေ →
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