Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kuam
Meaning: shell, cover, husk
Tibetan: khom wallet, leather trunk.
Burmese: khwam skin, pod, skull.
Kachin: puŋ1-kum1 the skull (puŋ1 head).
Lushai: kōm a pod, a shell; the cover (of a book); an ear of maize, KC *Kuam (?) eyelid.
Lepcha: kom-bo, kom-thun leather (untanned), hide
Comments: Sh. 411.
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