Notes
The Chinese/Tibetan comparison has previously been proposed by Coblin 1986:78 and Gong 2001:#28.
Chinese comparandum
羽 OC *gi̯wo, GSR #98a-b ‘feather, wing’; Coblin 86:78 PC *gwljagx > OC *gwjagx; Schuessler 2007:587 *waʔ; B & S 2011: *ɢʷaʔ {[ɢ]ʷ(r)aʔ}; Mand. yǔ.
Reflexes & cognates17 reflexes · 6 subgroups
0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1
2.1.2.1Tibetan6
9Sinitic4
9.0.1Old Chinese3
9.0.2Middle Chinese1
9.0.3Modern Chinese3
Chinese (Mandarin)yuu◦maur#363 PTB *s/r-mul ⪤ *s-mil ⪤ *s-myal ‘HAIR / FUR / FEATHER’MesorootsPKC *mul ⪤ *hmul ‘HAIR (body) / FUR / WOOL’Allofams1 #363 PTB *s/r-mul ⪤ *s-mil ⪤ *s-myal ‘HAIR / FUR / FEATHER’1a #1429 PTB *s-mu-t ‘BEARD / FACIAL HAIR / HAIR’1b #2058 PTB *mum ‘CHIN / BEARD’ ‘feather’Sun J 85 ChGl: 71
Chinese (Mandarin)yuu◦maur#363 PTB *s/r-mul ⪤ *s-mil ⪤ *s-myal ‘HAIR / FUR / FEATHER’MesorootsPKC *mul ⪤ *hmul ‘HAIR (body) / FUR / WOOL’Allofams1 #363 PTB *s/r-mul ⪤ *s-mil ⪤ *s-myal ‘HAIR / FUR / FEATHER’1a #1429 PTB *s-mu-t ‘BEARD / FACIAL HAIR / HAIR’1b #2058 PTB *mum ‘CHIN / BEARD’ ‘feather, quill’Sun J 85 ChGl: 776
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #750,
*s-grwa ‘FEATHER’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/750Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p. 172
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-750,
title = {{*s-grwa 'FEATHER'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #750},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/750}
}