< Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-maj ~ m-raj
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-may ⪤ *m-ray, *r-mi, *r-mey (Matisoff, STEDT); *r-may (Weidert, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991; Benedict, 1972); *r-may ~ mey (LaPolla, 1987); *r-mǎy (Matisoff, 1985); *r-mɑy (Chou, 1972)
Noun
*r-maj ~ m-raj
- tail
- penis
Descendants
- Old Chinese: 尾 /*məjʔ/ (B-S); /*mɯlʔ/ (ZS) ("tail, end; to copulate")
- Middle Chinese: 尾 (mʉiX)
→ Japanese: 尾 (び, bi)
Korean: 미 (尾, mi)
Vietnamese: vĩ (尾)
- Modern Mandarin
- Beijing: 尾 (wěi, /u̯eɪ̯²¹⁴/) (literary); (yǐ, /i²¹⁴/) (colloquial)
- Cantonese
- Guangzhou: 尾 /mei¹³/
- Modern Mandarin
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: རྨེད (rmed, “tail, crupper of saddle”)
- Tibetan
- Bodic
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese
- Burmish
- Burmese: မြီး (mri:, “tail”), အမြီး (a.mri:, “tail, tail-end”)
- Loloish
- Northern Loloish
- Yi (Liangshan): ꂪ (hmy, “tail; end”)
- Northern Loloish
- Burmish
- Lolo-Burmese
- Karen: *meᴮ (Luangthongkum, 2013)
- Sgaw: မဲၢ် (mê, “tail”)
See also
- *r-ŋa (“tail”)
- *m-ley ~ m-li (“penis”)
- *r-lik (“testicle; egg; penis”)