Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *q(h)ār

Meaning: feather

Chinese: 翰 *g_ārs pheasant feather; wing, to fly.

Lushai: ār fowl, KC *ɣār bird, feather.

Comments: Cf. Wancho ao-koi feather, Kham kǝ̄r wing; Apatani gó, Ersu guar 'fly'.

Chinese characters :

Character: 翰

Modern (Beijing) reading: hàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: g(h)ārs

Classic Old Chinese: g(h)ānh

Western Han Chinese: gānh (~ ɣ-)

Eastern Han Chinese: gānh (~ ɣ-)

Early Postclassic Chinese: gā̀n (~ ɣ-)

Middle Postclassic Chinese: gā̀n (~ ɣ-)

Late Postclassic Chinese: gā̀n (~ ɣ-)

Middle Chinese: ɣần

English meaning : to spread (wings)

Comments: Also read *g(h)ān, MC ɣân (FQ 胡安) id. During E.Zhou used also for *gār(s) 'to support' (probably related to 乾 *kār-s q.v.). During Late Zhou applied also to a homonymous *g(h)ār(s) 'white (of a horse)'. Still later (since Han) the character used to transcribe other homonymous words: *g(h)ār(s) 'wing' (probably a semantic development of the basic meaning) and *g(h)ār(s) 'writing brush; calligraphy'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 0

Four-angle index: 0

Karlgren code: 0140 f-g

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