Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *druaŋ
Meaning: middle, inside
Tibetan: gźuŋ the middle, midst.
Burmese: ǝtwaŋh the inside, inner part of a thing.
Lushai: čhūŋ inside.
Lepcha: tă-djŭŋ the ventricle of stomach
Comments: Dimasa bisiŋ inside; Rawang ǝduŋ in, middle; Trung a3-tuŋ1 middle. Simon 16; Ben. 17, 82; Coblin 53. Note Austroasiatic: Khmer trūŋ 'centre, middle, chest', Kui thru:ŋ 'chest' (also PAA *ruŋ 'cave, hole', PAN *Rawaŋ?; Peiros 1998, 222 compares PAN *teleŋ 'middle'). STEDT 178-180, with a (hardly justified) subdivision into 2 roots (*(t)s(y)u:ŋ and *[t/d]uŋ).
