#790 PTB *tsəw SKIN

This tentatively reconstructed root is largely restricted to the final syllables of Loloish compounds, with a possible cognate from Kulung.

Baima ʃhɑ⁵³ pɑ⁵³ ‘skin’ (Sun 1991, “Body Parts Questionnaire”) and Tamang (Sahu) grahm‑pa‑sa ‘lip’ and sya ‘skin’ (Taylor et al. 1972: 1.28, 2.24) look suspiciously like Baima shɑ¹³ kɛ³⁵ ‘flesh, meat’ and Tamang (Sahu) ra sya ‘meat’, suggesting that these syllables derive from #34 PTB *sya‑n FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL, rather than from the present etymon.

Several forms with initial palatal sibilants are assigned by W. T. French to PNN *C̬‑kʰuar, which we in turn assign to #593 PTB *kur ⪤ *kwar SKIN.