Where does “ဥနီ” come from?

ဥနီ (Burmese) comes from Burmese မုန်လာဥနီ, from Burmese မုန်လာဥ, from Burmese ဥ, from Burmese ဦး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d-bu-s — head.

Ancestry of “ဥနီ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမုန်လာဥနီcarrot
2Burmeseမုန်လာဥdaikon; radish
3Burmeseဥegg
4Burmeseဦးsir
5Proto-Sino-Tibetand-bu-shead
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan d-bu-s →Every word from Burmese ဦး →Every word from Burmese ဥ →