English Wiktionary account
Source-reportedMeaning: “sky, clouds, fog”
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".
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- Wiktionary: မိုးCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

