Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r/s-mwəj

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *r-mjwiəd (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r/s-mwəy (Matisoff, STEDT); *(s-)mwəy, *(r-)mwəy, *mwiy (Weidert, 1987); *rmwiy (*C) (?) (Coblin, 1986); *(r-)mwəy ~ (s-)mwəy (Chou, 1972); *mwiy (Benedict, 1972)

Verb

 * 1) to sleep
 * 2) to dream

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:  (B-S),  (ZS) ("to sleep; a sound sleep")
 * Middle Chinese:
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (mèi, )
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written (pf. ),
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Written
 * Karenic