Inherited fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*s-ma-y(“face, cheek, front, ahead, first”) (STEDT: hma "( affix, locative )"). Cognate withMizo[Term?](hmai,“face”);doublet ofမေး(me:,“lower jaw”).
မှာ• (hma)
(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (mhā: "order"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)
မှာ• (hma)