Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/(t)sam

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *sram (Coblin, 1986); *tsɑ̂m ~ sɑ̂m (Chou, 1972)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tsam ⪤ sam (Matisoff, STEDT; Michailovsky, 1991); *tsɑm (Chou, 1972); *tsam (Benedict, 1972); *tsâm / tsam / sâm (Weidert, 1987); *tsam (*A) (Coblin, 1986)

Noun

 * 1) hair (of the head)

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:, /*sˁram/ (Baxter-Sagart); /*sroːm, *slom/ (Zhengzhang Shangfang)
 * Middle Chinese:, /ʃɣam, siᴇm/
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing:, ("long hair") (shān, /ʂan⁵⁵/)
 * Kamarupan
 * Kuki-Chin
 * /*sham/ ("hair (head)") (VanBik, 2009)
 * Central Chin
 * Lushai [Mizo]:
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written, ,
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Written
 * Written