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#664 PTB *(h/k)ay VAGINA
Reconstructed mesoroots below:

This root seems fairly well attested, although it shows an unusual alternation between initial *k‑ and *h‑, which is perhaps paralleled in #2284 PTB *r‑ka EARTH / GROUND / SOIL and #2365 PTB *r‑kəw ⪤ *hu STEAL. See Matisoff 19971 and HPTB p. 57.

rnanalysislgidreflexglossgfnlanguagegrpidgrpnogrpgeneticcitationsrcabbrsrcidrn
5288286642031hajvagina*Tangkhulic661.3.4Tangkhulic1Mortensen 12 TkDRM-Tk3850
119916664,6651472hai khurvulvaTangkhul661.3.4Tangkhulic1Matisoff 87 BPJAM-Ety0
118484664,16141472hai◦rasemenTangkhul661.3.4Tangkhulic1Matisoff 87 BPJAM-Ety 2
30300664,6651473hay(-khur)vulvaTangkhul661.3.4Tangkhulic1Matisoff 85 GSTCJAM-GSTC1840
620792m,6642024ʔi-ʃievaginaTusom661.3.4Tangkhulic1Mortensen 12 TkDRM-TkBodyParts.3050
5268826642025hajvagina / vulvaUkhrul661.3.4Tangkhulic1Mortensen 12 TkDRM-Tk0
1199196641123kaivaginaMru151.6Mru1Matisoff 87 BPJAM-Ety0
303046641124kaivulvaMru151.6Mru1Matisoff 85 GSTCJAM-GSTC1840
2454664,6611036ki◦ʈuʔvaginaMeche801.7.1.1Bodo1Weidert 87 TBToAW-TBT620
119949664,m913hi-rāvulvaLimbu312.3.1Eastern Kiranti1Matisoff 87 BPJAM-Ety 3
30302664,m914hi-rāvulvaLimbu312.3.1Eastern Kiranti1Matisoff 85 GSTCJAM-GSTC1840
119907664,m,3432913hi-rā-hongvaginaLimbu312.3.1Eastern Kiranti1Matisoff 87 BPJAM-Ety0
30303664,m,3432914hi-rā-hongvaginaLimbu312.3.1Eastern Kiranti1Matisoff 85 GSTCJAM-GSTC1840
119950664,m,363,3428913hi-rā-mu-rikfemale pubic hairLimbu312.3.1Eastern Kiranti1Matisoff 87 BPJAM-Ety0
76004664,m911hi◦ravaginaLimbu312.3.1Eastern Kiranti1Michailovsky 89 LmBM-Lim0

^ 1.
“Primary and secondary laryngeal initials in Tibeto-Burman.”
^ 2.
Tangkhul hai ra certainly looks like a case of “genital flipflop”, i.e. semen is viewed as “vagina-semen”, since that is its destination.
^ 3.
The first syllable hi‑ is a lookalike of the vulgar Siamese word hǐi.