Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/sja-n

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

*sja-n

1. meat, flesh, body, animal

• Old Chinese: possibly 腊 /*sjaːɡ/ (ZS) ("dried meat")
  • Middle Chinese: 腊 (siᴇk)
    • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 腊 (xī, /ɕi⁵⁵/)
• Kamarupan
  • "North Assam"
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *shaa
    • Central Chin
      • Mizo: sa (“flesh, meat”)
  • "Naga"
    • Tangkhulic

      /*sa/ ("flesh, meat, animal") (Mortensen, 2012)

• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Proto-Bodish: *sʲa
      • Tibetic
        • Dzongkha: ཤ (sha)
        • Sherpa: ཤ (sha)
        • Tibetan: ཤ (sha)
      • Dakpa-Dzala
        • Dakpa: ཤ (sha)
        • Dzala: ཤ (sha)
      • East Bodish
        • Bumthangkha: ཤྲ (shra), ཤ (sha)
        • Kurtöp: ཤ (sha)
    • Tamangic

      *ᴬsja (“meat”) (Mazaudon, 1994)

  • Mahakiranti
    • Kiranti

      /*sa/ ("meat, flesh") (Opgenort, 2011)

      • Eastern Kiranti
        • Athpare: सा (sa, “meat”)
        • Yamphu: सा (sa, “meat”)
        • Yakkha: सा (sa, “meat”)
      • Western Kiranti
        • Khaling: सो़ (sö, “flesh, meat”)
        • Dumi: सु (su, “meat”)
• Boro-Garo
  • Garo: chaani
• Jingpho-Asakian
  • Jingpho: shan (“meat”)
• Naic
  • Proto-Naish: *ɕa
    • Naxi: shee (/⁠ʂɯ³³⁠/)
    • Narua: shei (/⁠ʂe˥⁠/)
    • Laze: [Term?] (/⁠ʂɯ˧⁠/)
• Lolo-Burmese
  • Burmish
    • Achang: shoh
    • Burmese: သား (sa:), အသား (a.sa:, “meat, flesh”)
  • Loloish: /*sa²/ ("meat, flesh") (Weidert, 1987)
    • Lahu: šā
    • Northern Loloish
      • Yi (Liangshan): ꎸ (she, “meat”)
    • Central Loloish
      • Lisu (Southern): ꓧꓪꓽ (xwɑ̀, “meat”)
• Kho-Bwa
  • Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: *sʲa, *sʲa- (see there for further descendants)

• *s-nja-k ~ hjak (“meat, flesh”)
• *r-sa (“vein, sinew, internal channel, pulse”)