Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-maːw

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan

Reconstruction

  • 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/)
  • Ersuic
    • Ersu: /maʴ⁵⁵/ ("feather")
  • rGyalrongic
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Situ: ta rɲi (“hair (general)”)

See also

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