Where does “sûm” come from?

sûm (Mizo) comes from English Shum, from Chinese 岑.

sûm (Mizo): to hold or seize with one's fist

Definitions

  1. to hold or seize with one's fist

Ancestry of “sûm”, step by step

sûm traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Shum

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishShum
2Chinese

via Proto-Kuki-Chin *suum

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Kuki-Chin*suum
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