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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 (câm "spring of water"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981. Doesn't seem related to Old Chinese泉 (OC*sɡʷen).”
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (câm "feel of; try"). Luce compares Old Chinese探 (OC*l̥ʰuːm, *l̥ʰuːms, “to grope for, search”), which appears semantically reasonable, though as the initial consonant of the Chinese term's phonetic series is still unresolved, this relation is uncertain. Note also similarities to 參 (OC*sʰluːm, *sʰluːms, *sloːm, *sʰrum, *srum, “to inspect, participate”), particularly with the B-S reconstruction.”
^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AM Finals (13. to Try, Test)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 41
Further reading
“စမ်း” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.