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Where does “首” come from?

首 (Chinese) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qV-luʔ.

首 (Chinese): neck

Definitions

  1. neck

Ancestry of “首”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetan*qV-luʔ—
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