Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/d-wam

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *dɣwjəm (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *d-wam (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987); *d-wam(*A) (Coblin, 1986); *d-wɑm (Chou, 1972)

Old Chinese had *-m final, as suggested by  ( - phonetic), which is preserved only in a few Min dialects, e.g. Amoy, Fu'an, Yong'an; elsewhere the final changed mainly to -ŋ.

Other languages in East Asia have words which look similar to the OC form: Korean, Japanese ; also, compare 🇨🇬 (Mon , Khmer (as in )), Vietnamese.



Noun

 * 1) bear

Descendants

 * (B-S) (ZS)
 * Beijing:
 * Guangzhou-Hong Kong:
 * Min:
 * Coastal Min:
 * Taiwan:
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written
 * Eastern Bodish:
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut
 * rGyalrongic
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Loloish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Khomic
 * rGyalrongic
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Loloish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Khomic
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Khomic
 * Khomic