Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-grwa

Proto-Sino-Tibetan

Etymology

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *s-grwa (STEDT)

Noun

*s-grwa

1. feather

Descendants

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

References

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