Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *śa
Meaning: meat, flesh
Tibetan: śa meat, flesh, bśa (p. bśas) to kill (animal for food), (g)śan butcher, slaughterer.
Burmese: sah meat, LB *šax.
Kachin: šan2 flesh.
Lushai: sa an animal, a beast; flesh, meat, KC *śa.
Comments: PG *ś[a]; Rawang śa, Trung ča1, čǝ3-wa1; Kanauri śyā; Rgyarung. śa-po; Bahing sye; Newari sa; Digaro śá (N); Chepang mo-śa. Sh. 52, 123, 188; Ben. 46; Mat 181. Cf. PAN *isiʔ, *hesi 'flesh'.
