< Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-maːw
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-maːw (Matisoff, STEDT)
Noun
*r-maːw
- hair
Descendants
- Old Chinese: 毛 (*C.mˁaw (Baxter-Sagart); *maːw, *maːws (Zhengzhang Shangfang))
- Middle Chinese: 毛 (mɑu, mɑuH)
- Modern Mandarin
- Beijing: 毛 ("hair") (máo, mào, /mɑʊ̯³⁵, mɑʊ̯⁵¹/)
- Modern Mandarin
- Middle Chinese: 毛 (mɑu, mɑuH)
- Tangut-Qiang
- Qiangic
- Ersu: /maʴ⁵⁵/ ("feather")
- rGyalrongic
- Situ: ta rɲi (“hair (general)”)
- Horpa: hair (general) (/rmo⁵³/)
- Qiangic
See also
- *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l (“hair, fur, feather”)
- *(t)sam (“hair of head”)