སྒྲོ
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Tibetan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Either from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa (“feather”), whence Chinese 羽 (Coblin, 1986; Gong Hwang-cherng, 2002; STEDT), or *w(a/u) (“bird; egg; wing; fowl”) (Matisoff, 2000; Schuessler, 2007; Sagart, 2021b; STEDT).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*zɡro/
Noun[edit]
སྒྲོ • (sgro)
Verb[edit]
སྒྲོ • (sgro) (nominal form སྒྲོ་བ)
- to elevate; to exaggerate