Where does “လေးလံ” come from?
လေးလံ (Burmese) comes from Burmese လေး, from Old Burmese လိယ်, from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij.
လေးလံ (Burmese): heavy
Ancestry of “လေးလံ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Burmese | လေး | four; heavy; bow |
| 2 | Old Burmese | လိယ် | — |
| 3 | Sino-Tibetan | *tV-lij | — |