Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m/s-laj ~ s-lej

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *m/s-lay ⪤ *s-ley (Matisoff, STEDT); *m-lay ⪤ s-lay (Michailovsky, 1991; Weidert, 1987; Benedict, 1972); *s-lay (LaPolla, 1987); *-lay ⪤ -ley ⪤ -lya (Matisoff, 1985); *-ley (French, 1983)

Other PST roots for "tongue" in STEDT:

The descendants listed below may as well be derived from one (or more than one of) the ones above. It's not always possible to unambiguously assign descendants to one of these etymons (allofams), especially in cases like Old Chinese where there exists considerable variation in the reconstructions. Hence the amalgamation of synonymous descendants here. See for more.

Noun

 * 1) tongue

Descendants
''Descendants listed hereafter are for words with the sense "tongue" only. Words with the sense "to lick" in daughter languages are mostly cognate to these and can be found at .''
 * Old Chinese:  (B-S);  (ZS) ("tongue")
 * Middle Chinese:
 * Middle Chinese:


 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (shé, )
 * Cantonese
 * Guangzhou:
 * Wu
 * Shanghai:
 * Min
 * Min Nan
 * Taiwan:  (colloquial);  (literary)
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written ,
 * Sal
 * Bodo-Garo
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Loloish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Khomic
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Khomic
 * Khomic
 * Khomic
 * Khomic