Where does “ဝေလငါး” come from?

ဝေလငါး (Burmese) comes from English whale, from Middle English whal, from Old English hwæl, from Proto-West Germanic hwal, from Proto-Germanic hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kʷálos — large fish; sheatfish.

ဝေလငါး (Burmese): whale

Definitions

  1. whale

Ancestry of “ဝေလငါး”, step by step

ဝေလငါး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English whale

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishwhaleAny of several species of large sea mammals of...
2Middle EnglishwhalA whale or cetacean
3Old Englishhwæla whale
4Proto-West Germanichwalwhale
5Proto-Germanichwalazwhale, sheatfish
6Proto-Indo-European(s)kʷáloslarge fish; sheatfish

via Burmese ငါး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseငါးfive; fish
2Sino-Tibetan*l-ŋaʔ—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)kʷálos →Every word from Proto-Germanic hwalaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic hwal →