Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/pV-lij

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *blyid (Coblin, 1986)
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *b-ləy (Matisoff, STEDT); *b-ləy, *b-liy (Chou, 1972; Weidert, 1987); *b-liy (LaPolla, 1987; Benedict, 1972)

*pV-lij

1. four

• Chepangic:
  • Chepang: प्‍लय् (pləy-), प्‍लय्‌ज्‍योः (pləy.jyoʔ)
• Old Chinese: 四 /*s.li(j)-s/ (B-S), /*hljids/ (ZS) (“four”)

  (in the oracle bone script)

  • Middle Chinese: 四 /siɪH/

    → Japanese: 四 (し, ​shi)
    Korean: 사 (四, sa)
    Vietnamese: tứ (四)

    • Mandarin:
      • Beijing: 四 (sì) /sz̩⁵¹/
    • Cantonese:
      • Guangzhou-Hong Kong: 四 (sei3, si3) /sei³³/, /ɕiː³³/
    • Wu:
      • Shanghainese: 四 /sz̩³⁴/
  • Min:
    • Coastal Min:
      • Min Nan:
        • Hokkien:
          • Taiwan: 四 /ɕi³¹/ (colloquial), /su³¹/ (literary)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Proto-Bodish: *bli
      • Tibetic
        • Tibetan: བཞི (bzhi)
      • Dakpa-Dzala
        • Dakpa: བླི (bli /⁠bli³⁵⁠/)
        • Dzala: བླི (bli)
      • East Bodish
        • Bumthangkha: བླེ (ble)
        • Khengkha: བླེ (ble)
        • Kurtöp: བླེ (ble)
  • Newar: पे (pe)
• Jingpho-Asakian
  • Jingpho: mali (“four”)
• Proto-Karen: *lwiᴬ (Luangthongkum, 2013)
  • S'gaw Karen: လွံၢ် (lwee̱)
  • Western Pwo: လံ
  • Western Kayah: ꤜꤝꤟꤤ꤭ (lwī̤)
• rGyalrongic
  • West rGyalrongic
    • Horpa
      • Geshiza: wʑæ
      • Tangut: 𗥃 (*ljɨr¹)
    • Khroskyabs: vdə́
  • East rGyalrongic
    • Japhug: kɯβde
• Naic
  • Proto-Naish: *ljV
    • Naxi: lu, lul
    • Narua: ru (/⁠ʐv̩˧⁠/)
    • Laze: [Term?] (/⁠ʐv˥ gv˥⁠/)
• Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *b/ʔ-ləj² (“four”)
  • Burmish
    • Achang: nyei
    • Burmese: လေး (le:, “four”)
  • Proto-Loloish: *b-le² (“four”)
    • Northern Loloish
      • Nuosu: ꇖ (ly, “four”)
• Nungish
  • Drung: vbli
  • Rawang: vbì
• Boro-Garo
  • Atong (India): byryi
  • Dimasa: biri
  • Garo: bri
  • Kokborok: brwi
• Karbi: phli