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

• Old Tibetan: /*zɡro/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zɡro/ (reconstructed)

Noun

སྒྲོ • (sgro)

1. feather

Verb

སྒྲོ • (sgro) (nominal form སྒྲོ་བ)

1. to elevate; to exaggerate

Conjugation

Conjugation of སྒྲོ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྒྲོ	sgro
Future	བསྒྲོ	bsgro
Past	བསྒྲོས	bsgros
Imperative	སྒྲོ	sgro