- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *dngjɨul (Coblin, 1986)
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *ŋul = *(d-)ŋur (Matisoff, STEDT); *ŋul (Chou, 1972); *d-ŋul (LaPolla, 1987)
*ŋul ~ (d-)ŋur
- silver
- Old Chinese: 銀/银 (yín) /*ŋrən/ (B-S), /*ŋrɯn/ (ZS) ("silver; money")
- Middle Chinese: 銀/银 (yín) /ŋɣiɪn/
The template Template:Sinoxenic does not use the parameter(s): 5=eun
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.**:
→ Japanese: 銀 (ぎん, gin)
Korean: 은 (銀, eun)
Vietnamese: ngân (銀)
→ Thai: เงิน (ngən, “silver, money”)
Lao: ເງິນ (ngœn, “silver, money”)
- Modern Mandarin
- Beijing: 銀/银 (yín) (yín, /in³⁵/)
- Cantonese
- Guangzhou: 銀/银 (yín) /ŋɐn²¹/
- Wu
- Min
- Min Nan
- Taiwan: 銀/银 (yín) /ɡin²⁴/, /ɡun²⁴/
- Kamarupan
- Proto-Kuki-Chin: *ŋuun (VanBik, 2009)
- Central Chin
- Lushai [Mizo]: ngûn (“name of a bracelet, tendril”)
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: དངུལ (dngul, “silver; money”), མངུལ (mngul, “silver”) (variant, western Tibetan dialects)
- Tangut-Qiang
- Northern Tangut
- Tangut: 𘊟 (*ŋwo², “silver”)
- rGyalrongic
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese
- Burmish
- Written Burmese: ငွေ (ngwe, “silver; money”)
- Proto-Loloish: *C-ŋwe¹ (“silver”) (Bradley, 1979)