Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/d-ŋa

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *d-ŋa (Matisoff, STEDT)

Other roots for "tooth":,.

Chinese may alternatively be regarded as a loan from an Austroasiatic language (Norman / Mei, 1976; Norman, 1988). Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and loanword in 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Pulleyblank (1983) believes Old Chinese was the donor.

Noun

 * 1) tooth

Descendants

 * (Baxter-Sagart), (Zhengzhang Shangfang)
 * Beijing:
 * Guangzhou-Hong Kong:
 * Kamarupan
 * Kuki-Chin
 * Central Chin: Proto-Central-Chin
 * Kamarupan
 * Kuki-Chin
 * Central Chin: Proto-Central-Chin