English Wiktionary account
Source-reportedMeaning: “grain; seed; lineage”
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. That said, the phonetics of the aforementioned Chinese comparandum make comparison tenuous; a much closer cognate is 苗 (OC *mrew, “seedling”).
Sources for this account (1)
- Wiktionary: မျိုးCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

