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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[l]ĭp
Meaning: neat, accurate
Tibetan: źib accurate, exact, strict, precise.
Lushai: thlep neatly, tidily.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lip ( ~ ƛ-,-e-)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: snake, leech
Burmese: kjap a poisonous snake.
Kachin: lip3 sp. of horse-leech.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lit
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: leech
Lushai: hlīt a water leech.
Lepcha: hlet-bŭ water leech
Kiranti: *lút
Comments: Mikir iŋlit water leech; Ao Naga melet horse-leech. Ben. 83.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lĭw(H) (s-)
Meaning: wash
Chinese: 滫 *slhiwʔ wash rice; urinate.
Burmese: hljaw to wash clothes or the hair.
Lushai: tleu to swill (with water).
Comments: ? Cf. also OCh. 浴 *lok bathe, wash. The Lush. form is not quite regular: *thleu would be expected; but cf. also hleuʔ, KC *hleuʔ 'swim'; Angami Naga rǝlu 'bathe', Garo ru, Dimasa lu 'pour', Mikir iŋlu 'bathe', Pwo, Sgaw lu 'pour', Burm. hlau *'boat, to row' (hlij-hlau 'to row', hlau-kah 'long boat', hlau-tak 'oar', hlau-lauŋ 'canoe'.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *līŋ
Meaning: hunt
Chinese: 畋 *l_īn to hunt.
Tibetan: liŋs a hunting or chase.
Comments: Coblin 96. Maybe the same root as *līŋ field ("field hunting").
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *līŋ
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: field
Chinese: 田 *lhīn field.
Tibetan: gliŋ island, continent, region, country; źiŋ field, ground, soil, arable land.
Burmese: krańh dry land, ground (OB krań).
Kachin: mǝliŋ1 a forest, wood.
Lepcha: ljaŋ the earth
Comments: BG: Garo buruŋ, briŋ forest, Dimasa ha-bliŋ field in second year of cultivation; Moshang, Namsangia liŋ forest, Rawang mǝliŋ id. Simon 27; Sh. 435; Ben. 40, 80-81; Peiros-Starostin 212. Matisoff (Mat. 176) compares the Burm. form with Jnp. kriŋ1 firm, stable kriŋ1-muŋ2 hill (see *ƛiŋ). Cf. Austric: Yao liŋ 'field(s)', Tai plɛ:ŋ 'a plot of land'.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *līw
Meaning: pull down branches to gather fruits or leaves
Chinese: 條 *slīw pull down branches and gather leaves.
Burmese: khju pull down a branch with a stick to gather fruits or flowers.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *l[ɨa]m
Meaning: grief, sorrow
Chinese: 惔 *l_ām burning with grief.
Burmese: lwamh to regret the loss of, think of with sorrow.
Comments: The root may actually be a variant of *lǝ̄m 'burn' (q. v.), cf. the specific meaning in OCh.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lɨăŋH
Meaning: nourish, guard
Chinese: 養 *lhaŋʔ nourish, feed; bring up, develop.
Burmese: kjauŋh to feed, tend, as cattle, LB *kluŋx.
Comments: Trung laŋ2 to pasture.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *l[ɨ̆]j
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: easy
Chinese: 夷 *lǝj easy; be at rest; pacify, peaceful.
Burmese: lwaj be easy, not difficult.
Kachin: loi2 easy.
Lushai: tlei be good, be quiet; not cry.
Kiranti: *lè-bä
Comments: Bunan lo-i; Trung la1 (but cf. *lă). Ben. 67; Mat. 170.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lɨ̆k
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: eat, swallow
Chinese: 食 *lǝk eat.
Burmese: kjǝuk to swallow liquid.
Kachin: luʔ2 to drink.
Lushai: luʔ to eat out (a pot etc.).
Comments: Nasalised *lɨ̆ŋ is probably reflected in Sulung *liŋ, Bodo *lǝŋ, Konyak *lVŋ 'drink'.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lɨ̆m
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: warm
Chinese: 尋 *lhǝm to warm up (food).
Burmese: lum be warm, hlum to warm one's self by a fire, to heat again, warm over.
Kachin: lum1 warm, mǝlum1 to heat, (H) sǝlum id.
Lushai: lum be warm or hot.
Lepcha: ljam to warm up food
Kiranti: *lúp / *lúm
Comments: Dimasa lim-lim be hot, have fever; Rawang lim warm, Trung lǝm2. Sh. 40; Ben. 81; Bod. 106. Cf. *lǝ̄m.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lɨ̆ŋ
Meaning: wave
Chinese: 洋 *laŋ great waters, ocean, 羕 *laŋ a great, continuos waterspace, 漾 *laŋs waves.
Tibetan: kloŋ wave, expanse (of water, space).
Burmese: hlǝuŋh wave.
Kachin: khaʔ2-leŋ2 a wave, a billow, (H) leŋ id.
Comments: Cf. also LB *laŋ river, water, valley (also meaning 'saliva, liquid' and attributed in STEDT 379 to a different root *laŋ: cf. Padam-Mising a-laŋ 'bile', Mikir a-laŋ 'bile, semen, milk' (in various compounds) etc. Cf. PAN *qalun 'wave, billow'.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lɨ̆ŋ
Meaning: convent
Chinese: 庠 *lhaŋ school.
Burmese: kjauŋh convent, monastery, school.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lɨ̆w
Meaning: a k. of monkey
Chinese: 猶 *lu a k. of monkey.
Kachin: ngrau2 the white-handed gibbon.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lɨ̆w (~-ĭw)
Meaning: place, place where
Chinese: 攸 *l_u (~-iw) place; the place where.
Kachin: gǝlo2 where.
Comments: Cf. Tib. la where, whither (?).
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *l[ɨ̆]wH
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: weed, to weed
Chinese: 莠 *luʔ weeds.
Kachin: (?) krau1 dig out, as a worm's nest from a hollow tree.
Lushai: hlô a weed, a drug, medicine, thlo (thlawʔ) to weed, to clear of weeds; to cultivate, silai-hlô saltpetre ( = "gun powder"); KC *hlo salt ( < *drug, powder).
Comments: Ben. 63.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lɨ̄̆m
Meaning: round, circular
Chinese: 鐔 *l_ǝ̄m, *lǝm, *lhǝm knob or ring on sword handle.
Tibetan: zlum round, circular.
Burmese: lumh globular, spherical, be round, LB *(s)lumx.
Kachin: lum2 be round.
Lushai: lum to roll, KC *lum; hlūm ball, KC *hlum.
Lepcha: tălam testicles
Kiranti: *ghlùm hatch ( < *'sit on eggs') (?)
Comments: Garo rom to roll; Kham lum; Trung aŋ3-kǝ3-lǝ̆m1. Sh. 407, 411; Ben 42; Mat. 184. Cf. also STEDT 120-121 *t-lam 'egg', 115-116 *rum 'egg', *glim ~ *glip 'brood/incubate' (hardly independent roots but rather derivations from *lɨ̄̆m).
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lɨ̄mH
Meaning: press, squeeze
Tibetan: glem-pa to press, squeeze, to crush, squash.
Burmese: kjumʔ be contracted, drawn together, shrunk, khjumʔ to contract, draw into narrow compass.
Lushai: hlōm to knead, squeeze, compress into a mass or lump.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lɨ̄mH
Meaning: pit
Chinese: 窞 *l_ǝ̄mʔ recess or smaller pit in bottom of cave or cellar.
Burmese: kjumh moat, trench around a fortification.
Kiranti: *lum
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