Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lǝ̆m

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: a measure, fathom

Tibetan: ãdom(s) a fathom.

Burmese: lam to measure by the arms extended, LB *lam; lamh, hlamh to stretch, as arms.

Kachin: lǝlam³ to measure by fathom, (H) lam to measure by fathom (not in common usage).

Lushai: hlam a fathom.

Comments: Tiddim lām id. Ben. 71; Mat. 170. Cf. PAN *kilan 'span' ( < ST, see Peiros 1998, 220?).

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