Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/na-ŋ

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *njaɣ (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *na-ŋ (Matisoff, STEDT); *naŋ ⪤ **na (LaPolla, 1987)

Compare 🇨🇬, Middle Korean.

Pronoun

 * 1) you (second-person singular pronoun)

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:
 * ,  (B-S);  (ZS) ("you (sg.)")
 * (B-S); (ZS) ("your (sg.)")
 * (B-S); (ZS) ("you (sg. & pl.)")
 * (B-S); (ZS) ("you, your")
 * (ZS) ("you") (colloquial variant)
 * (B-S); (ZS) ("you")
 * (B-S); (ZS) ("you")
 * (All of these survive as readings in compounds or in literary texts in modern dialects. Listed below are the colloquial words for "you" which are ultimately from this PST etymon.)
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (nǐ, ) ("you, thou")
 * Cantonese
 * Guangzhou:  ("you, thou")
 * Wu
 * Shanghai:  ("you, thou")
 * Min
 * Min Nan
 * Taiwan:,  ("you")
 * Kamarupan
 * Central Chin
 * Khomic
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * rGyalrongic
 * Jingpho-Asakian
 * Jingpho
 * Jingpho [Kachin]:
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * ("2nd person pronoun")
 * Burmish
 * Mranmaic
 * Northern Burmic
 * Loloish
 * (Bradley, 1979)
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan): ,
 * Central Loloish
 * Lisu (Southern):
 * Naic
 * Karenic:
 * Northern Burmic
 * Loloish
 * (Bradley, 1979)
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan): ,
 * Central Loloish
 * Lisu (Southern):
 * Naic
 * Karenic:
 * Central Loloish
 * Lisu (Southern):
 * Naic
 * Karenic:
 * Karenic: