Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chak (~-e-)

Meaning: drop, drip

Tibetan: ãʒag (p. (g)zags, f. gzag) to drop, drip, trickle; ãchag (p. chags, bcags, f. bcag, i. chog) to cause to trickle, to strain, filter, chag sieve, filter.

Burmese: ćak to drop, drip, LB *cak ~ ćak (cf. also ćać to strain, filter).

Lushai: siak to siphon; to filter.

Kiranti: *sék

Comments: Luce 66.

Kiranti etymology :

Proto-Kiranti: *sék

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Meaning: winnow, shake out, splutter

Tulung: sɛk-, sɔk-

Kaling: 'senä ('sehtu)

Limbu: saNmaʔ

Kulung: sāma

Comments: Toba 99 *sek-.

Limbu dictionary :

Entry: saNmaʔ, -saks-/-saN-

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: vt.

Meaning: shake out (water); splutter, splash

Comments: te:ʔl saksɛʔ! Shake out the clotheś; cf. thammaʔ.

Kulung dictionary :

Entry: sa:ma

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: vt-2 [1: saks- 2: sa:-]

Meaning: winnow (sitting with a winnowing basket), to purify (e.g. to purify cloths by a shaman (mɔ:bɔcha) in a ritual (mɔ:bɔ)

Nepali: kelāunu.

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