Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chāŋ
Meaning: high
Kachin: (H) nsaŋ great, noble, exalted.
Lushai: sāŋ (sān) be high, lofty, KC *śāŋʔ.
Lepcha: čuŋ, a-čuŋ 1 the chief point, principal, main, the essential (object), supreme, paramount 2 the most facile or straight road or course to a place; ǯăŋ, ǯóŋ a rising hill, an eminence, a mountain
Comments: Garo tsāŋ-; Rawang tśāŋ up. Sh. 52, 405. Here perhaps Konyak *saŋ "head". Cf. Austric: PAA *ʒʔoŋ 'high, long', PAN *kazaŋ 'long, tall'.
