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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kǝ̄w (~g-)
Meaning: cross, crossing, lattice
Chinese: 構, 冓 *kōs lattice, lattice-work; 遘, 覯 *kōs to encounter, meet with.
Burmese: kuh to cross over, transfer.
Kachin: gau1 to walk as on rail or a rope; to cross, as a stream on a log or narrow bridge.
Comments: Ben. 69; Mat. 178. Hanson gives Burm. kǝwh to walk on water, as nat.
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