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

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

• *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l (“hair, fur, feather”)
• *(t)sam (“hair of head”)