Ethnonym Yuezhi (was: "As")

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> YueZhi autoethnonym was sounding close to *ngjawtsix or *ngiwatsix.

> Chinese reconstruction is debatable,
> but the surest (non debatable) thing is : this ethnonym starts with #ng-
> velar nasal : something especially alien to PIE,
> (and by the way, alien to its closest relatives).

How would initial *kn- or *gn- have been rendered in Chinese?

Richard.