Where does “ရှေ့ထိုး” come from?

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

ရှေ့ထိုး (Burmese): name of the Burmese diacritic ်

Definitions

  1. name of the Burmese diacritic ်

Ancestry of “ရှေ့ထိုး”, step by step

ရှေ့ထိုး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရေwater
2Old Burmeseရိယ်—

via Burmese ထိုး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseထိုးto poke, jab, stab
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