Where does “ပ်ုဖၠုံၰင်” come from?

ပ်ုဖၠုံၰင် (Eastern Pwo) comes from Eastern Pwo ပ်ုဖၠုံ, from Burmese ဖ, from Burmese ပိ — to be pressed, to be flattened, to be crushed.

ပ်ုဖၠုံၰင် (Eastern Pwo): S'gaw person

Definitions

  1. S'gaw person

Ancestry of “ပ်ုဖၠုံၰင်”, step by step

ပ်ုဖၠုံၰင် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Eastern Pwo ပ်ုဖၠုံ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Eastern Pwoပ်ုဖၠုံKaren person
2BurmeseဖPha, the 23rd letter of the Burmese alphabet
3Burmeseပိto be pressed, to be flattened, to be crushed

via Eastern Pwo ၰင်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Eastern Pwoၰင်—
Every word from Burmese ပိ →Every word from Burmese ဖ →Every word from Eastern Pwo ပ်ုဖၠုံ →