An irrelevance

The following quote, from
Matisoff, James A.
Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman :
system and philosophy of Sino-Tibetan reconstruction
should, given the subject of the book, be irrelevant. But it isn't.

"
For discussion of several etyma in this semantic area, see
[Universal semantics and allofamic identification: Two Sino-Tibetan
cas-studies: "stright/flat/full" and "property/livestock/talent".
in
Languages and history in East Asia : Festschrift for Tatsuo Nishida
on the occasion of his 60th birthday],
where an allofamic connection iis posited amng *blin, <>
*plin, "full, *plen, (#138) "flat", and *blen, <> plen,
(#352) "straight".
"

Hm!

The second root is given elsewhere the translation "plank", which
doesn't make it less suspicious.

Torsten