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- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mying (Coblin, 1986)
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-miŋ (Matisoff, STEDT; Chou, 1972; Weidert, 1987; Benedict, 1972); *r/s-miŋ (Matisoff, 2003)
*r-miŋ
- name
*r-miŋ
- to name
- to order, to command
- Old Chinese: 名 (*C.meŋ (B-S), *meŋ (ZS)), 命 (*m-riŋ-s (B-S), *mreŋs (ZS))
- Middle Chinese: 名 (miᴇŋ), 命 (mɣiæŋH)
- Modern Mandarin
- Beijing: 名 (míng) ("name") (míng, /miŋ³⁵/), 命 (mìng) ("to name, to order, to command") (mìng, /miŋ⁵¹/)
- Kuki-Chin:
- /*miŋ/ ~ /*ʰmiŋ/, /*min/ ~ /*ʰmin/ (VanBik, 2009)
- Central Chin
- Mizo: hming (/ʰmiŋ/, “name”)
- Tangut-Qiang
- Northern Tangut
- Tangut: 𗦻 (*mji̱j², “name, title”), 𗥠 (*mji̱j², “name”)
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: མིང (ming, “name”)
- Dzongkha: མིང (ming, “name”)
- East Bodish
- Written Bumthangkha: མིང (ming, “name”)
- Sal
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese:
- *ʔ-miŋ¹/³ (“name”) (Matisoff, 2003)
- Burmish
- Written Burmese: အမည် (a.many, “name”), မှည့် (hmany., “to name”), မိန့် (min., “to order, to command”)