Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phjǝ̆m

Meaning: float

Chinese: 汎 *phrǝms to float (on water), soar (in the sky); 氾 *ph(r)ams overflow, inundate (also *bhrams disperse, float about).

Tibetan: ãbjam to flow over, be diffused.

Burmese: pjam, LB *pjam to fly.

Comments: Simon 23; Coblin 81. Jinuo (LB) has prɛ.42 pointing to *plam or *pram: this may be either a reflex of prefixed *r- (cf. Chinese) or a confusion with a different root, see *lVm. Cf. Miju phiuŋ 'fly'. Cf. Austric: PAA *PVŋ 'swim', PAN *apuŋ 'float'.