Where does “hke dan” come from?

hke dan (Jingpho) comes from Burmese ခဲတံ, from Burmese ခဲ — to freeze.

hke dan (Jingpho): pencil

Definitions

  1. pencil

Ancestry of “hke dan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseခဲတံpencil
2Burmeseခဲto freeze
Every word from Burmese ခဲ →Every word from Burmese ခဲတံ →