- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-dzas (Matisoff, STEDT)
This root is due to Gong (2000).
*r-dzas
- thing
- Old Chinese: 事 /*[m-s-]rəʔ-s/ ("B-S"), /*zrɯs/ (ZS) ("thing")
- Middle Chinese: 事 (MC dzriH)
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→ Japanese: 事 (じ, ji)
Korean: 사 (事, sa)
Vietnamese: sự (事)
- Mandarin:
- Beijing: 事 (shì, /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/)
- Cantonese:
- Guangzhou: 事 (si6, /siː²²/)
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Tibetan: རྫས (rdzas, “thing, object, matter”)
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese
- Burmish
- Burmese: စာ (ca, “thing”)