Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tīm
Meaning: sink, merge
Tibetan: dim to sink, thim to dissapear by being imbibed, absorbed; to sink, stim (p. bstims, f. bstim, i. stims) be absorbed in.
Burmese: thim to keep back, conceal, tim shallow; sunk, in decline.
Lepcha: thyám, thyóm to precipitate, to cleanse by precipitation, as to put rice into water to allow the sand and dirt to settle at bottom
Comments: Simon 23; Luce 44; Gong 86. Here perhaps also Taraon tim 'drink'. Cf. PAN *edem 'soak, dye'.