ThisProto-Sino-Tibetan entry containsreconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directlyattested, but are hypothesized to have existed based oncomparative evidence.

• 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.

*r-murl

1. hair,fur,feather

• 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
        • Tibetan:སྨིན་མ(smin ma,“eyebrow”)
• Bodo-Garo
  • Garo:খিমিল(kimil)
• rGyalrongic
  • West rGyalrongic
    • Horpa
      • Geshiza:-rmi(“hair (on head)”,bound noun)
      • Tangut:𗁲(*mej²,“hair, feather”),𘆩(*mẹ²,“wing”),𗐉(*mjar¹,“hair”)
    • Khroskyabs:rmə̂
  • East rGyalrongic
    • Japhug:tɤ-rme
• Naic
  • Proto-Naish:*Snu
    • Naxi:fv(/⁠fv̩³³⁠/)
    • Narua:hun(/⁠hṽ̩˧⁠/)
    • Laze:[Term?](/⁠hṽ˩⁠/)
• Lolo-Burmese
  • Burmish
    • Achang:mauh(“hair, fleece”)
    • Burmese:မွေး(mwe:,“hair, fur, feather”)
  • Loloish
    • Central Loloish
      • Lisoish
        • Lolopo:me

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

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