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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *răŋ (k-)
Meaning: count
Chinese: *raŋ to measure, *raŋs a measure.
Tibetan: sgraŋs enumerate, ãgraŋ to count, sraŋ pair of scales, balance; steel-yard; weight; bgroŋ to count, ãgraŋ to number, to count, sgraŋ (p. bsgraŋs, f. bsgraŋ, i. sgroŋ) to enumerate.
Burmese: khraŋ to measure (cf. also khjaŋʔ to weigh, measure, consider); raŋh to invest, hraŋh to pay (a bill, debt).
Kachin: ǝraŋ capital, a sum.
Lepcha: fróŋ, frón, a-frón
Comments: (?) cf. also Lush. ṭhīŋ (ṭhīn) to collect a debt. Bod. 82, 165; Luce 71; Coblin 108. ? Cf. Austric: PAA *rieŋ 'hundred, thousand', PAN *bilaŋ 'count'.
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