Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/na

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *na-(n/t) (Matisoff, STEDT); *na (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991); *na (*A) (Coblin, 1986)

See more on Wikipedia: Nat (spirit).

*na

1. ill, sick
2. pain
3. to suffer
4. evil spirit

• *nat

• Proto-Bodish: *na
  • Tibetic
    • Tibetan: ན (na, “to fall ill”), ⇒ ནན་ཏེ (nan te, “sick, ill”), སྣད (snad, “to wound, hurt”)
  • Dakpa-Dzala
    • Dakpa: ནེ (ne /⁠ne³⁵⁠/)
  • East Bodish
    • Khengkha: ན (na)
    • Kurtöp: ནཱ (nâ, “to be sick”)
• Lolo-Burmese: *na¹ (“ill”) (Weidert, 1987)
  • Burmish
    • Achang: nos (“to be ill”)
    • Burmese: နာ (na, “to be ill, to suffer pain”), နတ် (nat, “nat, spirit”)
  • Proto-Loloish: *C-na¹ (“ill”) (Bradley, 1979)
    • Northern Loloish
      • Yi (Liangshan): ꆅ (na, “hurt, pain, sore; illness”)
    • Central Loloish
      • Lisu (Southern): ꓠꓻ (nɑ, “sore, sick, ill”)
• Kuki-Chin
  • Central Chin
    • Mizo: nâ, nat (“ill, sick; illness”)
  • Northern Chin
    • Zou: na

• *mV-nar (“to suffer”)
• *tsə (“hot, pain, suffer, sick, ill”)

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan:
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman:
    • *na (Benedict, 1972)
    • *g-na-s (Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)

*na

1. to rest
2. to stop (oneself at a location)

• Bodish
  • Tibetic
    • ⇒ Tibetan: གནས (gnas)
• rGyalrongic
  • West rGyalrongic
    • Horpa
      • Geshiza: ne
      • Stau: nə
    • Khroskyabs: nî
  • East rGyalrongic
    • Japhug: nɯna
    • Tshobdun: nəne
• Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *na²
  • Burmish
    • Achang: no
    • Burmese: နား (na:)
    • Pela: na³¹
• Nungish
  • Drung: rvna (“to rest”)