Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/lwa(ː)j

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *lwa(ː)y (Matisoff, STEDT); *lway (Weidert, 1987; Benedict, 1972); *s-l(w)a-y (LaPolla, 1987)

The quantity of the nuclear vowel has not yet been established, although 🇨🇬 doublet suggests that it might have been long (Matisoff, 2003: 213).

Matisoff (STEDT) and Schuessler (2007) propose as Chinese comparandum. The presence of a labio-velar approximant as well as a velar coda in Chinese is confirmed by the fact that the character was borrowed to write in some classical texts predating the Han dynasty. should not be confused with his homograph, a derivate of via k-suffixation, i.e. OC *lek < *lajk < *laj + -k.

According to Schuessler (2007), could be compared with Tibetan  and  due to phonetic similarity. However, Matisoff (STEDT) reconstructs 🇨🇬 for these two Tibetan words.

Adjective

 * 1) easy

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:  (? <, see Sagart, 2007) (B-S),  (ZS) ("easy")
 * (in the oracle bone script) 易-oracle.svg
 * Middle Chinese: (yeH, /jiᴇH/) ("easy")
 * Modern Chinese
 * Beijing:
 * Cantonese:
 * Wu:
 * Min Nan
 * Xiamen:
 * Central Naga:
 * *m-laj (Bruhn, 2014)
 * Lotha: ela
 * Angami-Pochuri
 * Tangkhulic
 * *plaj (Mortensen, 2012)
 * Ukhrul: kəpaj
 * Meitei [Manipuri]: লৈবা
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut
 * Sal
 * Jingpho [Kachin]: ,
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Written
 * Loloish
 * Yi:
 * Loloish
 * Yi:
 * Yi: