Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛōt

Meaning: free, let loose

Chinese: 脫 *ƛ_ōt, *Ł_ōt to peel off, let loose.

Tibetan: lhod loose, relaxed, glod to loosen, relax; to comfort, console (perhaps a different root, cf. OCh. 悅 *Łot pleased, glad).

Burmese: lwat be at liberty, free, unrestrained, kjwat be freed from, khjwat to release, free, emancipate, LB *-lwat.

Kachin: lot² to escape, (H) khjot to banish, expel, exile; tat³ to liberate.

Lushai: hlut (LS) to take pleasure in.

Lepcha: lŭt to liberate, to save, to ransom; lut to uncover, to strip off, as skin, bark, thatch, to turn over as leaf of book; lját to get loose

Kiranti: *plut(-s) to loosen, *lót pull out

Comments: Sh. 40; Ben. 48; Mat. 199; Gong 48. Cf. PAA *lǝt / *lot 'run away'; *lVt 'to peel, pull away', PAN *-lus (see Sag 37).