Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lūm
Meaning: womb
Tibetan: lhums (resp.) the womb.
Burmese: hnǝlumh the heart, soul.
Kachin: sǝlum1 the heart.
Lushai: hlūm the name given to the womb when contracted immediately after childbirth; hlam placenta
Lepcha: lím, a-lím the spleen
Comments: STEDT 280-283 *s-b-[l/r]um ~ *s-b-l(w)am 'womb, placenta' (adding also Tib. sbrum 'pregnant', some LB and Karen forms, as well as a quite improbable Chin. parallel). {Some confusion with *ƛɨăŋ 'heart'.}
