Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-maj ~ m-raj

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-may ⪤ *m-ray, *r-mi, *r-mey (Matisoff, STEDT); *r-may (Weidert, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991; Benedict, 1972); *r-may ~ mey (LaPolla, 1987); *r-mǎy (Matisoff, 1985); *r-mɑy (Chou, 1972)

Noun

 * 1) tail
 * 2) penis

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:  (B-S);  (ZS) ("tail, end; to copulate")
 * Middle Chinese:


 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (wěi, ) (literary); (yǐ, ) (colloquial)
 * Cantonese
 * Guangzhou:
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Burmish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * Naic
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Central
 * Naic
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Central
 * Central
 * Central
 * Central