Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-maːw

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan

Etymology

  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-maːw (Matisoff, STEDT)

Noun

*r-maːw

  1. hair

Descendants

  • Old Chinese: 毛 (*C.mˁaw (Baxter-Sagart); *maːw, *maːws (Zhengzhang Shangfang))
    • Middle Chinese: 毛 (mɑu, mɑuH)
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 毛 (máo) ("hair") (máo, mào, /mɑʊ̯³⁵, mɑʊ̯⁵¹/)
  • Tangut-Qiang
    • Qiangic
      • Ersu: /maʴ⁵⁵/ ("feather")
    • rGyalrongic
      • Situ: ta rɲi (“hair (general)”)
      • Horpa: hair (general) (/rmo⁵³/)

See also

Wikious
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