Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m/s-glak ~ m-glaŋ

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *gljang (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *m/s-glak ⪤ *m-glaŋ (Matisoff, STEDT); *graŋ (Benedict, 1972); *grɑŋ (Chou, 1972); *graŋ ⪤ glaŋ ⪤ m/ʔ-glak (Matisoff, 2003)

→ Also, compare the following word family in Chinese, of unknown origin:
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! !! B-S !! ZS !! Def.
 * > (dial.) ||||"ice"
 * < uvular?||||"to freeze, to form; ice"
 * "ice"
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 * "ice"
 * }
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Adjective

 * 1) cold
 * 2) freeze

Descendants

 * Old Chinese: (root)
 * (vocalic variant)
 * (s-noun)
 * Middle Chinese:, ,
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing:
 * (liáng, ) ("cool")
 * (liàng, ) ("to make ... cold, to make ... dry")
 * (lěng, ) ("cold")
 * (shuāng, ) ("frost")
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written ,
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Written
 * Burmish
 * Written