Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/k-la

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *k-la (Matisoff, STEDT)

Borrowed from, whence also 🇨🇬.

Noun



 * 1) tiger

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:, , , ,
 * (虎 in the oracle bone script)　虎-oracle.svg
 * Middle Chinese:
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (hǔ, )
 * Cantonese
 * Guangzhou:
 * Wu
 * Shanghai:
 * Min
 * Min Nan
 * Taiwan:


 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * (Benedict, 1972)
 * Burmish
 * Burmic
 * (< kla (Inscriptional Burmese))
 * Maruic
 * Pela:
 * Loloish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * Central Loloish
 * Lisu (Southern):
 * Lahu: