Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/səj

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *syid (Coblin, 1986)
 * (Matisoff, STEDT; French, 1983); *səy, *siy (Weidert, 1987; Chou, 1972); *siy = *səy (LaPolla, 1987); *siy (Benedict, 1972; Michailovsky, 1991); *syiy(?) (Coblin, 1986)

Chinese perhaps belongs here too.

Verb

 * 1) to die

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:  (B-S);  (ZS) ("to die")
 * (in the oracle bone script) 死-oracle.svg
 * Middle Chinese:


 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (sǐ, )
 * Cantonese
 * Guangzhou:
 * Wu
 * Shanghai:  (colloquial),  (literary)
 * Min
 * Min Nan
 * Taiwan:  (colloquial),  (literary)
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written (pf. )
 * Sal
 * Bodo-Koch
 * Bodo-Garo
 * Jingpho-Asakian
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut
 * rGyalrongic
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Burmish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * Central Loloish
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Kuki-Chin-Naga
 * Central Chin
 * Burmish
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * Central Loloish
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Kuki-Chin-Naga
 * Central Chin
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Kuki-Chin-Naga
 * Central Chin
 * (Luangthongkum, 2013)
 * Kuki-Chin-Naga
 * Central Chin
 * Kuki-Chin-Naga
 * Central Chin
 * Kuki-Chin-Naga
 * Central Chin
 * Central Chin