Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/k/r/s-wa

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rɣwjaɣ  (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *k/r/s-wa, *rwa-s (Matisoff, STEDT); *r-wa (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987)

The Chinese word family is said to represent a rare ST parallel stem *(r)we (Schuessler, 2007). Compare also (, "cloud").

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Noun

 * 1) rain

Descendants

 * Old Chinese: ; ;
 * Middle Chinese: ,
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (yǔ,, "rain"),  (yù, , "to rain (literary)"),  (yú, , "sacrifice with prayer and dance for rain")
 * Cantonese
 * Guangzhou:  ("rain"),   ("to rain (literary)"),   ("sacrifice with prayer and dance for rain")
 * Wu
 * Shanghai:
 * Min
 * Min Nan
 * Taiwan:  (colloquial),  (literary)
 * Himalayish
 * Mahakiranti
 * Kiranti
 * Western Kiranti
 * Sal
 * Bodo-Koch
 * Bodo-Garo
 * Garo:
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Written
 * Loloish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan): (literary) (> )
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan): (literary) (> )