< Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/sja-n
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *sya-n (Matisoff, STEDT); *sya (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987; LaPolla, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991); *śɑ (Chou, 1972)
Noun
*sja-n
- meat, flesh, body, animal
Descendants
- Old Chinese: possibly 腊 /*sjaːɡ/ (ZS) ("dried meat")
- Middle Chinese: 腊 (siᴇk)
- Modern Mandarin
- Beijing: 腊 (xī, /ɕi⁵⁵/)
- Modern Mandarin
- Middle Chinese: 腊 (siᴇk)
- Kamarupan
- "North Assam"
- Kuki-Chin
- /*shaa/ ("meat, flesh, animal") (VanBik, 2009)
- Central Chin
- Lushai [Mizo]: sa (“flesh, meat, animal food”)
- "Naga"
- Tangkhulic
- /*sa/ ("flesh, meat, animal") (Mortensen, 2012)
- Tangkhulic
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: ཤ (sha, “meat, flesh”)
- Tibetan
- Tamangic
- *ᴬsja (“meat”) (Mazaudon, 1994)
- Bodic
- Mahakiranti
- Kiranti
- /*sa/ ("meat, flesh") (Opgenort, 2011)
- Kiranti
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Jingpho-Asakian
- Jingpho
- Jingpho [Kachin]: shan (“meat”)
- Jingpho
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese
- Burmish
- Burmese: သား (sa:), အသား (a.sa:, “meat, flesh”)
- Loloish
- /*sa²/ ("meat, flesh") (Weidert, 1987)
- Northern Loloish
- Yi (Liangshan): ꎸ (she, “meat”)
- Central Loloish
- Lisu (Southern): ꓧꓪꓽ (xwɑ̀, “meat”)
- Burmish
- Lolo-Burmese
See also
- *s-nja-k ~ hjak (“meat, flesh”)
- *r-sa (“vein, sinew, internal channel, pulse”)