Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/krəw

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *n/g-[r]u-(ŋ/k) ⪤ *n/g-[r]wa-ŋ/k, *d-krəw (Matisoff, STEDT); *g-ruŋ ~ gruŋ, *krəw-k, *rwa(ŋ) (Matisoff, 2003); *kruw, *rwaŋ (Michailovsky, 1991); *kruw (LaPolla, 1987); *kruw, *ruŋ ~ *rwaŋ (Benedict, 1972); *ruŋ (Chou, 1972); *ruŋ ~ *rwaŋ (Weidert, 1987)

*krəw

1. horn
2. angle
3. corner

• Old Chinese: 角 (*C.kˁrok (B-S), *kroːg (ZS), “horn, angle, corner”), 觥 (*kʷraːŋ (ZS), “ancient wine vessel made of horn”)
  • Middle Chinese: 角 /kɣʌk/, 觥 (gōng) /kwɣæŋ/

    → Japanese: 角 (かく, ​kaku)
    Korean: 각 (角, gak)
    Vietnamese: giác (角)

    → Vietnamese: góc (“corner”)

    • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 角 (jiăo) /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/ (colloquial), jué /t͡ɕɥ̯œ³⁵/ (literary); 餃 / 饺 (jiăo, “dumpling”) /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/; 觥 (gōng) /kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Himalayish
  • Proto-Bodish: *ru (ba)
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: རྭ (rwa), རུ (ru)
    • Dakpa-Dzala
      • Dakpa: [Term?] (/⁠ruː³⁵⁠/), [Term?] (/⁠ru35.wa53⁠/)
    • East Bodish
      • Bumthangkha: རུ (ru), རོ (ro)
      • Kurtöp: རོ་ཝ (rowa), རཱོ (rô)
  • Mahakiranti
    • Kiranti
      • Western Kiranti
        • Khaling: घ्रोङ (ghrong, “horn”)
        • Dumi: ग्रो (gro, “horn”), घ्र (gʰrʌ)
• Boro-Garo
  • Garo: grong
• Lolo-Burmese
  • Burmish
    • Burmese: ချို (hkyui) ~ ခြို (hkrui, “horn, antler”)
  • Proto-Loloish: *kro¹ (Bradley, 1979)
    • Northern Loloish
      • Yi (Liangshan): ꃚ (fu, “horn”)

• *(m)ku(ː)-k/ŋ (“bent, crooked, curved”)
• *nu-(ŋ/k) ~ nwa-(ŋ/k) (“horn”)