မေ

Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mow (“woman; female relative”).


ချစ်

Inherited from Old Burmese ချတ် (khyat) or Old Burmese ခေတ် (khet), ultimately inherited from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kri(k/ŋ) (“to love”). Cognate with Zaiwa zhvit (“to love”), Tibetan སྐྱིད་པ (skyid pa, “happy”), Old Chinese 吉 (OC *klid, “auspicious”) (Hill 2019, p. 228).


နေ

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔnəj¹/³, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj (“sun; day”). Cognate with Old Chinese 日 (OC *njiɡ), Tibetan ཉི་མ (nyi ma).

a unisex given name from Proto-Sino-Tibetan or Sino-Tibetan


ပန်း

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *baːr (“to bloom; flower”), which is perhaps an areal word (compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *bi̯aŋ (“flower”)). Cognate with Tibetan [script needed] (ḥbar-ba, “to blossom”), Old Chinese 葩 (OC *pʰraː, “flower”), 疤 (OC *praː, “scar”) (STEDT). The "red, pink" sense is derived from how the color of many flowers is pink.

cog

my:ပန်း (သံတူကြောင်းကွဲ)


အေး

och-l

凜 (OC *b·rɯmʔ, *ɡrɯm, “freezing cold, solemn”)


ထင်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *taŋ¹ ~ *m-daŋ² (“to think, feel an emotion”); cognate with Lahu [script needed] (dɔ³, “to think”) (STEDT). Luce apparently compares Old Chinese 呈 (OC *rleŋ, *l'eŋs, “to manifest”), though the phonetics of the Old Chinese reconstruction make a relation uncertain.


ကြယ်

Cognate with Yao'an Lolopo gie (“star”), Naxi geeq (“star”), Japhug ʑŋgri (“star”).


ချမ်း

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kyam (“cold, snow, ice”). Cognate with Jingpho [script needed] (khyēn, “snow, ice, frost”) (STEDT).


မိုး

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-məw (“sky, clouds, fog”). Doublet of မြူ (mru, “fog”).
The "roof, hold over, tower" senses are considered equivalent to the "sky" sense by MED, but possibly different by STEDT (amui: "roof"). They appear to be semantic extensions from "sky" > "what lies above" > "roof, hold over".


ဖြူ

Inherited from Old Burmese ဖ္လူ (phlu), from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *plu¹ (“white, silver, money”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *plu (“idem”). Cognate with Jingpho [script needed] (hpraw, “white”) (STEDT).


ဝါ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/s-wa (“white; yellow; bright”), which is part of a complex word family with many allofams. More distant cognates from the allofam *hwaŋ (“shine, bright, yellow”) include ဝင်း (wang:, “bright”) and Old Chinese 黃 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ, “yellow”) (STEDT).


နီ

Inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-ni¹ (“red”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ni (“red”). Cognate with Nuosu ꅪ (hni) and Lolopo ni; outside of Lolo-Burmese, compare Old Chinese 怩 (OC *nil, “ashamed”), 恥 (OC *n̥ʰɯʔ, “shame, disgrace”) (STEDT).


မြင့်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-raŋ (“high; long”). Cognate with Nuosu ꀊꂥ (a hmu, “tall, high”), Lolopo mu (“high, tall”) and Drung mrvng (“long, tall”), Mongsen Ao tə́-hláŋ, Old Chinese 陵 (OC *rɯŋ, “mound, hill”) (STEDT).


စိန်

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စိန် • (cin)

my-proper noun

စိန် • (cin)


သိန်း

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သိန်း • (sin:)

my-proper noun

သိန်း • (sin:)


လှ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-hla (“soul, demon, god; beautiful”) (STEDT).


ညို

cog

Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-ŋow (“white, green, yellow, blue”)


မျိုး

→ Shan: မဵဝ်း (máeo) / မျူဝ်း (mjó)

→ Lü: ᦙᦷᦍ (myo)

→ S'gaw Karen: မၠိ (myoh)

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m/b)rəw (“grain; seed; lineage”) (STEDT), whence Old Chinese 物 (OC *mɯd, “thing, matter, substance”); see there for more cognates.


အောင်

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အောင် • (aung)

my-proper noun

အောင် • (aung)

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔoŋ¹ (“win, complete”); forms outside Lolo-Burmese, like Jingpho [script needed] (ʔōŋ, “to conquer, overcome”), are probably borrowed from Burmese (STEDT). Note also similarities to Old Chinese 贏 (OC *leŋ, “to win”) (which is constructed with a uvular *ɢ by Baxter and Sagart; uvulars in Proto-Sino-Tibetan seem to be dropped in Burmese).


ကေ

Borrowed from Pali kesa. Doublet of ကေသ (kesa.) and ကေသာ (kesa).


ခင်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *kaŋ (“father, grandfather, honorific”). See also Old Chinese 翁 (OC *qloːŋ, “old man”) and 公 (OC *kloːŋ, “duke, high-ranked male”) for further discussion of possible cognates (STEDT).


မြ

Possibly from Sanskrit मरकत (marakata, “emerald”) or Pali marakata (“emerald”). Compare Tibetan མར་གད (mar gad, “emerald”).


စန္ဒာ

Borrowed from Pali canda. Doublet of စန္ဒြာ (candra) and စန်း (can:).


နှင်း

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-ŋar (“frost, ice”); cognate with Akha [script needed] (ŋɛ́, “ice”) (STEDT). Luce gives Old Chinese 瀼 (OC *njaŋ, “dewy”) as a cognate; this is supported by Coblin.


ရဲ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-(r/y/w)ay (“bold, heroic”). Cognate with Mizo [Term?] (huāi, “bold, daring”) (STEDT). Luce additionally adduces Old Chinese 烈 (OC *red, “ardent, fiery”) as a cognate. This is semantically appealing, though the final in the Old Chinese reconstruction does not seem to match.
The senses of "brave", "bright red", "rampant", and "police" are all grouped together by MED.


ဝဏ္ဏ

Borrowed from Pali vaṇṇa (“appearance”).


တင်

Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-tjaŋ (“top; to rise”). Luce gives Old Chinese 置 (OC *tɯɡs, “to place”) as a cognate, though this comparison seems outdated.


ဥက္ကာ

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ဥက္ကာ • (ukka)

my-proper noun

ဥက္ကာ • (ukka)

Borrowing from Pali ukkā, from Sanskrit उल्का (ulkā).


ဌေး

Borrowed from Pali seṭṭhi (“millionaire”), from Sanskrit श्रेष्ठीन् (śreṣṭhīn).

der

Sanskrit श्रेष्ठीन् (śreṣṭhīn)


သော်တာ

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သော်တာ • (sauta)

my-proper noun

သော်တာ • (sauta)

Borrowed from Sanskrit सुधांशु (sudhāṃśu, literally “nectar-eyed”).


ဘုန်း

Said by the Myanmar–English Dictionary to have been borrowed from Pali bhaga (“luck, fortune”), but this is phonologically unlikely. Rather, more like to be from Sanskrit पुण्य (puṇya, “virtue, purity”) or Pali puñña (“merit”).


ဉာဏ်

From Pali ñāṇa. Doublet of ဉာဏ (nyana.) and Doublet of ဉာဉ် (nyany).


ဝင်း

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ (“shine; bright; yellow”). Cognate with 黃 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ, “yellow”); more distant cognates include ဝါ (wa, “yellow”) (STEDT).


ဇေ

Contraction of ဇေယျ (jeyya.), borrowed from Pali jaya.


သူရ

Borrowed from Pali sura (“deity”) or Pali sūra (“sun”).


ဥဂ္ဂါ

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ဥဂ္ဂါ • (ugga)

my-proper noun

ဥဂ္ဂါ • (ugga)


အိန္ဒြေ

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အိန္ဒြေ • (indre)

my-proper noun

အိန္ဒြေ • (indre)

Alternative spelling of ဣန္ဒြေ (indre), borrowed from Pali indriya.


ဥမ္မာ

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ဥမ္မာ • (umma)

my-proper noun

ဥမ္မာ • (umma)


သူရိန်

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သူရိန် • (surin)

my-proper noun

သူရိန် • (surin)

Borrowed from Pali suriya or Sanskrit शूर (śūra) + Sanskrit इन्द्र (indra). Doublet of သူရိယ (suri.ya.).


ကလျာ

Contraction of ကလျာဏီ (ka.lyani), borrowed from Pali kalyāṇī.


အိန္ဒြာ

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အိန္ဒြာ • (indra)

my-proper noun

အိန္ဒြာ • (indra)

Alternative spelling of ဣန္ဒြာ (indra), borrowed from Sanskrit इन्द्र (indra). Doublet of ဣန္ဒါ (inda).


သိင်္ဂီ

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သိင်္ဂီ • (singgi)

my-proper noun

သိင်္ဂီ • (singgi)


ဘရဏီ

Borrowed from Pali bharaṇī (“bearer, maintainer, sustainer; a constellation”).


ဟေမန်

Borrowed from Pali hemanta. Doublet of ဟေမန္တ (hemanta.).


အဉ္ဇလီ

Borrowed from Pali añjali. Cognate with Thai อัญชลี (an-chá-lii).


နီလာ

Borrowed from Pali nīla (“blue”), thus "blue (gem)". Cognate with Mon နဳလာ, Shan ၼီႇလႃႇ (nìi làa), Jingpho nila.


သီရိ

Borrowed from Pali siri, from Sanskrit श्री (śrī), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćriHrás. Doublet of သိန် (sin).


ရာဇာ

Alternative spelling of ရာဇ (raja.), borrowed from Pali rājan.


ကေသ

Borrowed from Pali kesa. Doublet of ကေ (ke) and ကေသာ (kesa).


သီတာ

Borrowed from Pali sītā or Sanskrit सीता (sītā).


အုန်း

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အုန်း • (un:)

my-proper noun

အုန်း • (un:)


ဇာနည်

Contraction of အာဇာနည် (ajanany), from Pali ājāneyya.


စန္ဒြာ

Borrowed from Sanskrit चन्द्र (candra). Doublet of စန္ဒာ (canda).


ယမင်း

Elision of ယဉ် (yany, “cultured”) + မင်း (mang:, “noble”)