Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s/r-m(u/i/ja)l
Appearance
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *g-mul ⪤ s-mul ⪤ s-mil ⪤ s-myal (Matisoff, STEDT); *(s-)mul ⪤ *(r-)mul (Benedict, 1972; Michailovsky, 1991); *s/r-mul ~ s-mil (Chou, 1972); *(r-)mul (Weidert, 1987)
Chinese 毛 (máo) ("fur; hair") is probably from PTB *r-maːw.
Noun
[edit]*s/r-m(u/i/ja)l
Descendants
[edit]- Old Chinese: 眉 (méi) /*mrər/ (Baxter-Sagart); /*mril/ (Zhengzhang Shangfang)
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: སྨིན་མ (smin ma, “eyebrow”)
- Tibetan
- Bodic
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodo-Garo
- Garo: খিমিল (kimil)
- Tangut-Qiang
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi