Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[dh]ĕkʷ
Meaning: burn, glow
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)
Comments: Luce 81. Cf. also OCh. 燭 *tok torch; Kir. *thik 'cook, burn': perhaps two original roots that are now very hard to distinguish. stibet-prnum,stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-tib,stibet-burm,stibet-lush,stibet-lepcha,stibet-kir,stibet-comments,