Where does “ꇖ” come from?

ꇖ (Sichuan Yi) comes from Proto-Loloish *b-le², from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *b/ʔ-ləj², from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-lij — four.

ꇖ (Sichuan Yi): four

Definitions

  1. four

Ancestry of “ꇖ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Loloish*b-le²—
2Proto-Lolo-Burmese*b/ʔ-ləj²—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*pV-lijfour
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-lij →Every word from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *b/ʔ-ləj² →Every word from Proto-Loloish *b-le² →