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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[dh]ĕŋ
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: straight
Chinese: 正 *teŋs straight, correct, 貞 *treŋ id.
Tibetan: draŋ straight.
Burmese: tańʔ be straightward, direct from one point to another.
Kachin: diŋ1 be straight, rectilinear.
Lushai: diŋ right, right-handed (cf. also dīŋ go straight or direct, as arrow).
Lepcha: diŋ 1 to be erect, to be high, to be perpendicular; the highest point or degree 2 to stand, to remain, to exist
Comments: Simon 15; Luce 62.
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