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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nŏH
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: nipple, breast; suckle
Chinese: *noʔ nipple; milk, suckle.
Tibetan: nu to suck, nud, snun to suckle.
Burmese: nǝwʔ breast, milk, LB *hnǝw(ʔ).
Lushai: hnu-tē milk, breast.
Kiranti: *n[u]
Comments: Kham nwīN; Tsangla nu milk; Trung nuŋ1 nipple, breast, milk. Sh. 60; Ben. 100; Peiros-Starostin 216. STEDT 189-201 *s-nǝw-[t/n] (with a variant *n(y)u[k/ŋ]). Cf. PAN *nunuH 'breast, milk' (Sag 4).
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