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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (kywân "island"), and Luce's comparison with Old Chinese洲 (OC*tju, “islet in a river; continent”) is phonetically unconvincing.[1] Bears, however, a stronger though still vague resemblance to 沚 (OC*kjɯʔ, “islet”).”
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (kywân "teak tree"), and not mentioned by Luce. Perhaps from some unknown substrate now lost to history?”
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not mentioned by STEDT or Luce 1981.”)
^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AN Finals (41. Island; Continent)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 54