སྒྲོ

Tibetan

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa
    Tibetan སྒྲོ (sgro)

    Either from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa (“feather”), whence Chinese 羽 (Coblin, 1986; Gong Hwang-cherng, 2002; STEDT), or *w(a/u) (“bird; egg; wing; fowl”) (Matisoff, 2000; Schuessler, 2007; Sagart, 2021b; STEDT).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    སྒྲོ • (sgro)

    1. feather

    Verb

    སྒྲོ • (sgro) (nominal form སྒྲོ་བ)

    1. to elevate; to exaggerate

    Conjugation

    present སྒྲོ (sgro)
    future བསྒྲོ (bsgro)
    past བསྒྲོས (bsgros)
    imperative སྒྲོ (sgro)
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