Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/na-(n/t)

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *na-(n/t) (Matisoff, STEDT); *na (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991); *na (*A) (Coblin, 1986)

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Adjective

 * 1) ill, sick
 * 2) pain
 * 3) to suffer
 * 4) evil spirit

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:
 * (B-S); (ZS) ("difficult, hard"),   (B-S);  (ZS) ("hardship, misfortune, disaster")
 * (ZS) ("to expel demons of illness")
 * * (ZS) ("sick") (medieval)
 * Middle Chinese:, ,
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing:, ; (nàn), ; ,
 * Kamarupan
 * Kuki-Chin
 * Central Chin
 * Northern Chin
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written, , , , ,
 * Jingpho-Asakian
 * Jingpho
 * Jingpho [Kachin]:
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese: *na¹ (Weidert, 1987)
 * Burmish
 * Written ,
 * (Bradley, 1979)
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * Central Loloish
 * Lisu (Southern):
 * Central Loloish
 * Lisu (Southern):