Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mrăw

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: grain, seed

Chinese: 苗 *m(r)aw grain in the blade; sprout (cf. also 麰 *mu 'barley')

Tibetan: ãbru grain, seed.

Burmese: mjǝwh (OB mluiw, mliw, mljuiw: Luce 30) seed, grain; sort, kind.

Kachin: mju³ seed, sort.

Lushai: mu a seed, kernel, KC *mu type, variety.

Comments: Bodo mu type, variety; Miri a-mî. Sh. 196; Ben. 43; Mat. 192. For the recurring meaning 'type, sort, variety' cf. OCh. 貌 *mrā(k)ws form, manner, aspect - possibly, a different ST root. See STEDT 338 *s-mu 'ball, egg, testicle' (although the basic meaning is no doubt 'seed'); should be distinguished from *mŭ 'eyeball' q.v.