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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s/r-m(u/i/ja)l

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed words 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: *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 ("fur") is probably from PTB *r-maːw.

Noun

*s/r-m(u/i/ja)l

  1. hair, fur, feather

Descendants
  • Old Chinese: 眉 /*mrər/ (Baxter-Sagart); /*mril/ (Zhengzhang Shangfang)
    • Middle Chinese: 眉 /mɣiɪ/
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 眉 ("eyebrow") (méi, /meɪ̯³⁵/)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan: སྨིན་མ (smin ma, “eyebrow”)
  • Tangut-Qiang
    • Northern Tangut
      • Tangut:
        𗁲 (mej, /*mɛj³⁵/, “hair, feather”)
        𘆩 (mẹ, /*me³⁵/, “wing”)
        𗐉 (mjar, /*mʲɑɚ⁵⁵/, “hair”)
  • Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
    • Lolo-Burmese
      • Burmish

See also
  • *(t)sam (“hair (of head)”)
  • *s-kra (“hair of head, head”)
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