Where does “birû” come from?

birû (Kurdish) comes from Proto-Iranian *HbrúHs, from Proto-Indo-Iranian HbʰrúHs, from Proto-Indo-European h₃bʰrúHs — eyebrow.

birû (Kurdish): eyebrow

Definitions

  1. eyebrow

Ancestry of “birû”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Iranian*HbrúHs—
2Proto-Indo-IranianHbʰrúHseyebrow
3Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃bʰrúHseyebrow
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₃bʰrúHs →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian HbʰrúHs →Every word from Proto-Iranian *HbrúHs →