Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *krɨam
Meaning: pinch, nip off
Tibetan: ãgrum (p. grum) to pinch or nip off (the point of a thing), cut off, prune, lop.
Kachin: krum1 to trim, prume, lop (as dead branches from a tree).
Comments: Irregular gh- in OCh. is due to the influence of *khăm tongs q. v.