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Modern (Beijing) reading: jīn
Preclassic Old Chinese: cims
Classic Old Chinese: cimh
Western Han Chinese: cjǝmh
Eastern Han Chinese: cjǝmh
Early Postclassic Chinese: cjìm
Middle Postclassic Chinese: cjìm
Late Postclassic Chinese: cjìm
Middle Chinese: cjìm
English meaning : to overflow, soak, wet
Russian meaning[s]: 1) погрузить в воду, обмакнуть, промочить; 2) постепенно проникать; постепенно, все более
Comments: In Mand. also read jīn (pointing to a variant MC *cjim, OC *cim). The normal Sino-Viet. reading is tâ`m; cf. also tắm 'to bathe, have a bath' (probably a colloquial loan from the same source).
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 6044
Karlgren code: 0661 m
Vietnamese reading: chấm
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *cĭm(H)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: soak, submerge
Chinese: *cims overflow; to soak.
Burmese: ćim to steep, soak in liquor.
Kachin: nam2-čim3 water as oozing through the ground, (H) čim to ooze, percolate.
Lushai: čīm submerge.
Lepcha: čím to pour out from a larger vessel into a smaller
Comments: Luce 44, Coblin 136.
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=ísdwV(n )
Meaning: to suck
North Caucasian: *=iʒ_wVn
Sino-Tibetan: *cĭm(H)
Yenisseian: *ʔu(ʔ)t- (~x-,-c-)
Comments and references : HGC 18, NSC 61 *-sdwV.
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North Caucasian etymology :

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Proto-North Caucasian: *=iʒ_wVn
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: to filter; to suck
Proto-Avaro-Andian: *=ic̣:ʷVn- / *c̣:ʷVn-
Proto-Dargwa: *=umz-
Proto-Lezghian: *ʔic̣:ʷän-
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. In some languages reflexes of *=ĭʒ_wVn and *=īʒ_ur (q.v.) are rather hard to distinguish, but in general these roots should be strictly kept apart from each other.
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Avar-Andian etymology :

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Protoform: *=ic̣:ʷVn- / *c̣:ʷVn-
North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology
Meaning: 1 to filter 2 to suck
Andian language: c̣:un- 2
Akhvakh: c̣:on- 1
Chamalal: =uṣ- 1,ṣun- 2
Tindi: =uc:ĩ-1,c:un-2
Karata: =uc̣:an- 1
Comments: Stem I (*=ic̣:ʷVn-) is reflected in Cham., Tind. and Kar. (cf. also Akhv. Tseg., Ratl., Tlan. =uc̣:-); stem II (*c̣:ʷVn-) - in Northern Akhvakh, as well as in Tind. c:un- 'to wring out, squeeze out; to suck', Cham. ṣun- (Gig., Gad. c̣:un-) 'to suck', And. c̣:un- id. With secondary denasalisation here may belong also Tind. c:ab-d- 'to shrink, contract' ( < *c:ʷVb- < *c:ʷVm-; an intransitive counterpart of c:un-).
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Dargwa etymology :

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Proto-Dargwa: *=umz-
North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology
Meaning: to filter
Akusha: umʔ-es
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Lezghian etymology :

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Proto-Lezghian: *ʔic̣:ʷän-
North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology
Meaning: 1 to filter 2 to sift 3 to suck
Tabasaran: k-a=c:- (Khiv.)
Budukh: ʕ-atn-
Archi: c̣um-(mus) 2
Udi: c:um 3
Comment: Cf. also Bud. pret. ʕa-tin-ǯi. The Tab. and Bud. form contain preverbs. In Arch. the original tense *c̣: is revealed in the reduplicated present form c̣emc̣:in. Cf. also the nominal derivate Arch. c̣om 'sieve'.
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Yenisseian etymology :

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Proto-Yenisseian: *ʔut- (~x-,-c-)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: to suck
Ket: mam-ǝt5 'to suck breast'; (Werner 2, 27) nūt1 / nūtǝ1
Yug: mam-ǝt5 id.; (Werner 2, 27) nut1
Kottish: šiut 'sucking'; baʔūtaŋ 'to suck', praet. balaʔūtaŋ, imp. alčut, pass. balāʔut
Comments: ССЕ 201. Initial n- in Ket and Yug forms is secondary, being derived from formations like da-nam-s-ut < da-d-mam-s-ut 'sucks the breast (mam)' etc. Werner 2, 27 *ut < *qut (with *q being reconstructed for no obvious reason at all).
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