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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[dh]ĕkʷ
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: burn, glow
Chinese: *tekʷ burn, brilliant, illuminate (cf. also 的 *tēkʷ bright, brilliant).
Tibetan: dugs heat; make warm; to light, to kindle; thog thunderbolt, lightning.
Burmese: tauk to blaze, flame, be luminous brilliant, LB *t[uk]x burn.
Lushai: duk be glowing with heat (as ashes).
Lepcha: tik, tik-kă tik-kă sparkling, flickering (light)
Kiranti: *thok (~-uk,-ak)
Comments: Luce 81. Cf. also OCh. 燭 *tok torch; Kir. *thik 'cook, burn': perhaps two original roots that are now very hard to distinguish.
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