Where does “wa²” come from?

wa² (Proto-Loloish) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-pʷal — snow; ice; frost; hail.

wa² (Proto-Loloish): snow

Definitions

  1. snow

Ancestry of “wa²”, step by step

wa² traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-pʷal

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetans-pʷalsnow; ice; frost; hail

via Sino-Tibetan *rV-pa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sino-Tibetan*rV-pa—

Words derived from “wa²”

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-pʷal →