Etymograph

English

serow

Serow comes from lep ᰠᰶᰛᰨ ‘long-haired Tibetan goat’.

  1. lepmodernᰠᰶᰛᰨ1să-ro‘long-haired Tibetan goat’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1999serow1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English serow
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1999, Jan Dodd, Simon Richmond: “The peninsula is home to an estimated four hundred…”.

Lineage

  1. lepmodernᰠᰶᰛᰨWiktionary, English serowsă-ro‘long-haired Tibetan goat’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1999serowWiktionary, English serow. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1999, Jan Dodd, Simon Richmond: “The peninsula is home to an estimated four hundred…”

Today it means

noun Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “serow”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / lep ᰠᰶᰛᰨ / serow