Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/sja-n

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *sya-n (Matisoff, STEDT); *sya (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987; LaPolla, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991); *śɑ (Chou, 1972)

Noun

 * 1) meat, flesh, body, animal

Descendants

 * Old Chinese: possibly  (ZS) ("dried meat")
 * Middle Chinese:
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (xī, )
 * Kamarupan
 * "North Assam"
 * Kuki-Chin
 * ("meat, flesh, animal") (VanBik, 2009)
 * Central Chin
 * Lushai [Mizo]:
 * "Naga"
 * Tangkhulic
 * ("flesh, meat, animal") (Mortensen, 2012)
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written
 * Tamangic
 * (Mazaudon, 1994)
 * Mahakiranti
 * Kiranti
 * ("meat, flesh") (Opgenort, 2011)
 * Eastern Kiranti
 * Western Kiranti
 * Sal
 * Bodo-Garo
 * Jingpho-Asakian
 * Jingpho
 * Jingpho [Kachin]:
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Loloish
 * ("meat, flesh") (Weidert, 1987)
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * Central Loloish
 * Lisu (Southern):
 * Loloish
 * ("meat, flesh") (Weidert, 1987)
 * Northern Loloish
 * Yi (Liangshan):
 * Central Loloish
 * Lisu (Southern):
 * Central Loloish
 * Lisu (Southern):