Where does “မိယ်မ” come from?

မိယ်မ (Old Burmese) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-mi(j)-n — man, person, human being.

Ancestry of “မိယ်မ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetanr-mi(j)-nman, person, human being
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r-mi(j)-n