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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 (yâm "strike right and left, flourish"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981 (or Hill 2019).”
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (jɑm³ "gunpowder"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981 or Hill 2019. Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan*g-rjum(“salt, salty”) (whence also Old Chinese鹽 (OC *ɡ·lam, *ɡ·lams, “salt”)), with semantic shift "salt" > "powder" > "gunpowder".”