Where does “ropui” come from?

ropui (Mizo) comes from Mizo -pui, from Proto-Kuki-Chin *puy.

ropui (Mizo): great (in quality or scale)

Definitions

  1. great (in quality or scale)

Ancestry of “ropui”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Mizo-puiAugmentative suffix
2Proto-Kuki-Chin*puy—
Every word from Proto-Kuki-Chin *puy →Every word from Mizo -pui →