Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-paj

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-paj (Matisoff, STEDT); *paj ⪤ *plaj (Matisoff, 1978)

In Jingpho the word for spleen is represented by compounds like kanpai, hkumpai ~ kumpai ~ gumpai, hkinpai and sinpai, in which the first element appears to be a body-part classifier and the second is the reflex of PTB *r-paj itself. In these compounds, the morpheme kan means “stomach” when it occurs in isolation, while hkum ~ kum ~ gum is a generic body-part classifier, probably from PTB. The last compound seems to be formed by the word sin, meaning “liver”.

Particular attention must be paid to distinguish between direct cognates of this root in Sino-Tibetan languages and the borrowing from 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬, coming from 🇨🇬, which is ultimately derived from 🇨🇬, that in turn gave rise to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, but which doesn't seem related to PTB *r-paj.

Finally, this root is similar to PTB, which, apart from a phonetic resemblance, shares the same meaning with the root *r-paj.

Noun

 * 1) spleen

Descendants

 * Old Chinese: // (B-S),  (ZS) ("spleen")
 * Middle Chinese: bjie, /biᴇ/


 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing:
 * Cantonese:
 * Wu:
 * Hakka: ,
 * Min Nan:
 * Tani
 * Western Tani
 * Galo: pi ko (Das Gupta, 1963)
 * Angami-Pochuri
 * Angami
 * Angami Naga: ,
 * Sal
 * Bodo-Garo
 * Bodo
 * Garo:
 * Kachin-Luic
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese:
 * *ʔ-p(r)ay¹ (Matisoff, 2003)
 * Loloish
 * Lolopho:
 * Burmish
 * Burmese:
 * Loloish
 * Lolopho:
 * Burmish
 * Burmese: