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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (prôŋ "species of millet"), and Luce adduces no cognates.[1] Bears some resemblance to Old Chinese粱 (OC *raŋ, “good millet”), though the lack of an initial *p- in the Old Chinese reconstruction is problematic.”
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (prôŋ "blowpipe"), and Luce adduces no cognates.[2]”
Likely cognate with Old Chinese變 (OC *prons, “to change”); note particularly similarity with Korean변(byeon, “change”), the Korean borrowing of the Chinese term. Has also been compared with 亂 (OC *roːns, “disorder”) (Baxter, 1992), as well as with Tibetanསྤྲུལ་བ(sprul ba, “to transform”) (Shi, 2000).
^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-OṄ Finals (60. Sorghum millet)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 87
^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-OṄ Finals (58. Blowpipe)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 87
Further reading
“ပြောင်း 1 ‘millet’” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 675.
“ပြောင်း 2 ‘change’” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 676.