Where does “မီးယၢပ်ႈ” come from?

မီးယၢပ်ႈ (Shan) comes from Burmese မီးယပ်, from Burmese မီး, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mej — fire.

မီးယၢပ်ႈ (Shan): menses

Definitions

  1. menses

Ancestry of “မီးယၢပ်ႈ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမီးယပ်menses
2Burmeseမီးfire; light; brilliance
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanmejfire
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan mej →Every word from Burmese မီး →Every word from Burmese မီးယပ် →