Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/hljak

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *hliek (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *l-tsyak (Matisoff, STEDT)

An areal word in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It's difficult to determine in every case whether the commonality was due to borrowing or inheritedness, or to determine the source. Compare 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and perhaps 🇨🇬 (Modern 🇨🇬). See on Wikipedia.

Definitions

 * 1) iron, iron instrument

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:
 * Middle Chinese:


 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: ("iron") (tiě, )
 * Cantonese
 * Guangzhou:
 * Wu
 * Shanghai:
 * Min
 * Min Nan
 * Taiwan:
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Written
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)