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Old Chinese had *-m final, as suggested by Shuowen (炎(yán) - phonetic), which is preserved only in a few Min dialects, e.g. Amoy, Fu'an, Yong'an; elsewhere the final changed mainly to -ŋ.
Other languages in East Asia have words which look similar to the OC form: Korean 곰 (gom, “bear”), Japanese 熊(kuma); also, compare Proto-Mon-Khmer*[k]mum(“bear, black bear”) (Mon ကၟဳ(mɛm), Khmer ឃ្មុំ(kmum) (as in ខ្លាឃ្មុំ(klaa kmum, “sun bear”))), Vietnamese hùm(“tiger”).
The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), whose habitat was probably one of the closest to the Proto-Sino-Tibetan Urheimat, hence the species that this PST root might have originally referred to.
Chinese: 羆／罴(pí) (*pral, "brown bear"); 魋 (*duːl, "a bear-like animal")
Proto-Tai: *ʰmwɯjᴬ(“bear”) (whence Thai หมี(mǐi), Lao ໝີ(mī)), recorded in Chinese literature as 羋／芈 (*meʔ), the ancestral name of the Chu state rulers.
