Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m-liːt

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *m-liːt (Matisoff, STEDT); *(m-)liːt (Weidert, 1987; Chou, 1972; Benedict, 1972)

Noun

 * 1) water leech, horseleech

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:
 * < Proto-Chinese: (?) (AS)
 * Middle Chinese:
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (zhì, )
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * ("leech")
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)