Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/nup ~ nip

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *nup ~ *nip = *nuːp ~ *ni[ː]p (Matisoff, STEDT); *nuːp~ni[ː]p (Chou, 1972); *nup ⪤ nip (Benedict, 1972)

Verb

 * 1) to sink
 * 2) (of sun, moon) to set
 * 3) to enter

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:
 * (B-S), (ZS) ("to enter; to set (e.g. sun)")
 * (B-S), (ZS) ("to take in, to let in; to receive")
 * (B-S), (ZS) ("inside, inner part")
 * (入 in the oracle bone script) 入-oracle.svg
 * Middle Chinese:, ,


 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (rù, ),  (nà, ),  (nèi, )
 * (Note: 入 - irregular development from MC, perhaps due to taboo reasons, i.e. to disambiguate from the figurative sense "to fuck" of the same character, which is now represented by rì.)
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written, ,
 * Sal
 * Bodo-Koch
 * Bodo-Garo
 * Garo:
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Written ,
 * Written ,