Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ʔɨ̄mH
Meaning: hold in mouth
Tibetan: ʔum a kiss.
Kachin: mǝ-um1 hold in the mouth.
Lepcha: ŭm receive into mouth without swallowing
Comments: Mikir om chew, mouthful; Miri um-bom hold (as inside the mouth); Nung am ; Dhimal am drink. Ben. 36, 143; Coblin 95. STEDT 236-237 *mum 'kiss, suckle, milk' (listing the Tib. form and a variety of Tani, Kuki-Naga and Tujia forms possibly going back to *m-ʔɨ̄mH, cf. the Jingpaw form). Cf. Austric: PAN *luqum 'hold in the mouth', PAA *ʔVm id.
