Where does “လေးလံ” come from?

လေးလံ (Burmese) comes from Burmese လေး, from Old Burmese လိယ်, from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij.

လေးလံ (Burmese): heavy

Definitions

  1. heavy

Ancestry of “လေးလံ”, step by step

လေးလံ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese လေး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseလေးfour; heavy; bow
2Old Burmeseလိယ်—
3Sino-Tibetan*tV-lij—

via Burmese လ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseလmoon; month
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij →Every word from Old Burmese လိယ် →Every word from Burmese လေး →