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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-grwa

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan

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Etymology

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    • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *s-grwa (STEDT)

    Noun

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    *s-grwa

    1. feather

    Descendants

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    • Old Chinese: ("feather, wing, bird") /*ɢʷaʔ, ɢʷas/
      • Middle Chinese: (ɦɨoX, ɦɨoH)
        • Modern Mandarin
          • Beijing: ("feather") (, /y²¹⁴/)
    • Himalayish
      • Tibeto-Kanauri
        • Bodic
          • Tibetan
            • Written Tibetan: སྒྲོ (sgro, feather)

    References

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    • James A. Matisoff, editor (2015), The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus