Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-njam

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *niəm/nyəm (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s-nyam ("think"), *nyam ("see") (Matisoff, STEDT)

Compare 🇨🇬 (Sagart, 1993) (~ doublet ) (> 🇨🇬 (Kulalao), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (< ) (Schuessler, 2007).

Verb

 * 1) to think

Noun

 * 1) mind, thought

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:  (B-S),  (ZS) ("to think of, to miss; to show love for; to read aloud");   (B-S; unlisted) ("to think of");   (B-S),  (ZS) ("to think of, to long for")
 * Middle Chinese: ,


 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (niàn, ),  (rèn, )
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written ,