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Mottama

Mottama comes from Burmese မုတ္ထမ, and goes back to Mon မိုဟ်တၟံ.

  1. Monmodernမိုဟ်တၟံmiuh tomliterally ‘rocky spur’
  2. Burmesemodernမုတ္ထမmuthta.ma.
  3. EnglishtodayMottama

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Monmodernမိုဟ်တၟံmiuh tomliterally ‘rocky spur’
  2. Burmesemodernမုတ္ထမmuthta.ma.
  3. EnglishtodayMottama

Today it means

name A town in the Thaton District of Mon State, Myanmar.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Mon မိုဟ်တၟံ / Mottama