Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *riǝmH
Meaning: fear, threaten
Tibetan: khrims right, custom; law, lawsuit.
Burmese: khrimh, krimh threaten, be threatened, terrified.
Kachin: ǝkhrim1 to threaten, to alarm as with a threat, mǝkrim1 set the teeth on edge.
Comments: Dimasa migrim fear. Luce 44, Coblin 127-128, Ben. 81. Cf. PAA *bri:m 'afraid' (also other forms, see Peiros 1998, 226).
