Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/w(a/u)

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *sgwljaɣ (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *w(a/u) (Matisoff, STEDT); *wa / *(b)wa (Weidert, 1987); *wa (Benedict, 1972)

Noun

 * 1) bird, fowl
 * 2) wing
 * 3) feather, plume
 * 4) egg

Descendants

 * Old Chinese: ("feather, wing, bird")
 * Middle Chinese:
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: ("feather") (yǔ, )
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written