Etymology

Karenni

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Burmese ကရင်နီ
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The story

  1. Burmese · borrowed fromကရင်နီ“red Karen”
  2. English todayKarenni

Anglicized form of Burmese ကရင်နီ (ka.rangni, “red Karen”)

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.