Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/g-tam ~ g-dam

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *g-tam ⪤ *g-dam (Matisoff, STEDT)

Verb

 * 1) to talk, to speak

Descendants

 * Old Chinese: ;
 * Middle Chinese: ,


 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing:, (tán, )
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written, ,