Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-dul ~ r-tul

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rdjiul (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-dul ⪤ *r-tul (Matisoff, STEDT)

Noun

 * 1) dust

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:  (B-S);  (ZS) ("dust, dirt")
 * Middle Chinese:
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (chén, )
 * Cantonese: (can, )
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written