Where does “ဝံပုလွေငယ်” come from?

ဝံပုလွေငယ် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဝံပုလွေ, from Burmese ဝံ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tV-wəm — bear.

ဝံပုလွေငယ် (Burmese): coyote

Definitions

  1. coyote

Ancestry of “ဝံပုလွေငယ်”, step by step

ဝံပုလွေငယ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဝံပုလွေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဝံပုလွေwolf
2Burmeseဝံbear
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*tV-wəmbear

via Burmese ငယ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseငယ်small; little; young; chevrotain
2Old Burmeseငဲ—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tV-wəm →Every word from Burmese ဝံ →Every word from Burmese ဝံပုလွေ →