Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *qĭp ( / *qĭm)
Meaning: needle
Tibetan: khab needle.
Burmese: ap needle, LB *ɣapx.
Lepcha: kíp, a-kíp a slight narrow shoot, a slender sprout, a picker
Comments: Kanauri kebʔ; Trung wăp1; Gyarung tekyep. Sh. 140; Ben. 25. Cf. PAA *kam 'arrow, pin', Thai kam.A 'needle, spoke'. The variation *-m / *-p is somewhat unusual (*-m must be original, judging both from the external evidence and from the Austric borrowings).
