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

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 ("fur; hair") is probably from PTB.

Noun

 * 1) hair, fur, feather

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:  (Baxter-Sagart);  (Zhengzhang Shangfang)
 * Middle Chinese:
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: ("eyebrow") (méi, )
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written
 * Bodo-Garo
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Written
 * Central Loloish
 * Lisoish
 * Central Loloish
 * Lisoish