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

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed terms 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 (máo) ("fur; hair") is probably from PTB *r-maːw.

Noun

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

1. hair, fur, feather

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 眉 (méi) /*mrər/ (Baxter-Sagart); /*mril/ (Zhengzhang Shangfang)
  • Middle Chinese: 眉 (méi) /mɣiɪ/
    • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 眉 (méi) ("eyebrow") (méi, /meɪ̯³⁵/)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: སྨིན་མ (smin ma, “eyebrow”)
• Bodo-Garo
  • Garo: খিমিল (kimil)
• Tangut-Qiang
  • Northern Tangut
    • Tangut: 𗁲 (*mej², “hair, feather”), 𘆩 (*mẹ², “wing”), 𗐉 (*mjar¹, “hair”)
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Written Burmese: အမွေး (a.mwe:, “hair, fur, feather”)
    • Central Loloish
      • Lisoish
        • Lolopo: me

See also

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