Where does “ဖီထိၣ်ကိး” come from?

ဖီထိၣ်ကိး (S'gaw Karen) comes from S'gaw Karen ထိၣ်ကိး, from S'gaw Karen ထိၣ်, from Proto-Karen *thoᴮ.

ဖီထိၣ်ကိး (S'gaw Karen): a type of orchid (Thunia alba)

Definitions

  1. a type of orchid (Thunia alba)

Ancestry of “ဖီထိၣ်ကိး”, step by step

ဖီထိၣ်ကိး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via S'gaw Karen ထိၣ်ကိး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1S'gaw Karenထိၣ်ကိးa hornbill
2S'gaw Karenထိၣ်bird
3Proto-Karen*thoᴮ—

via Burmese ဖ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1BurmeseဖPha, the 23rd letter of the Burmese alphabet
2Burmeseပိto be pressed, to be flattened, to be crushed
Every word from Proto-Karen *thoᴮ →Every word from S'gaw Karen ထိၣ် →Every word from S'gaw Karen ထိၣ်ကိး →
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