Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m-dz(j)a-k/n/t/s

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *dzaʔ (Schuessler, 2007)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *m-dz(y)a-k/n/t/s (Matisoff, STEDT); *dzya-n/k (Mortensen, 2012); *dza (Weidert, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991; Benedict, 1972); *dza-n ⪤ dza-k (Matisoff, 1983); *dzɑ (Chou, 1972)

Some consider Chinese to be a reflex of this root; according to the latest reconstructions, 食 and its cognates are probably best listed under.

Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to eat
 * 2) food
 * 3) to feed (?)
 * 4) rice

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:, ,
 * (Note: 餐 may alternatively (and perhaps more preferably) be compared with WT, .)
 * Middle Chinese:, ,
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: ,
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written Tibetan:
 * (fut., pf. or , imp. )
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * rGyalrongic
 * Sal
 * Bodo-Koch
 * Bodo-Garo
 * Garo:
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Sal
 * Bodo-Koch
 * Bodo-Garo
 * Garo:
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Burmish


 * Loloish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * Naic