More *Lum- "people":
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Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen
'2dæ?n,
1) 'Leute', 'Menschen';
2) 'Volk';
jug. 2d´æ?n,,
kot. (C) c^eän, / c^ean,, Pl. c^eän,an;
c^eän,ans^e 'Volks-', 'dem Volke gehörig', 'allgemein';
imb. (Ad 1) den /dan (Ad 2) 'Leute';
|| PJ *d´e?n, 'Leute';
PJ (S) 3^e?n, ds., Pl. von *3^e? 'Mensch' (?);
St 1997/2: 233 vgl. mit
burj. zon, 'Volk' < *3uen, <
urmo. *g´uen < chin. ts´uen 'Dorf
(in atü. Texten als tsun belegt)'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingling#Yeniseian_Theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingling#Dingling_and_Xiongnu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit
For some reason, Tlingit tribes are called 'kwaan'. Hm.
More (t)loquor "speak" (like the masses, apparently)
Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages
'CK *tkw- 'to speak, say':
Georg. tkv- 'to say, speak';
Megr. tk(v)-; Laz tk(v)-;
Svan kw-.
Verb stem widely attested in Old Georgian (s^ees^ina priad da tkues... 'they feared greatly, saying...' Mt. 27.54). The instability of v in Zan languages (action noun Megr. tkuala-, Laz o-(n)tkval-u) can be seen from contrasting Laz tk-u 'he said' and tkv-es 'they said'. In the Georgian-Zan area there exists also a derivative stem *tkw-am- : tk(w)-m-. In Svan (action noun lī-kw-isg) the stem is simplified. The vowel lengthening in the prefix lī- apparently points to the loss of a consonant.
|| Georgian, Megrelian: Cagareli (1880: 13). Laz: C^ikobava (1938: 282). Svan: Klimov (1960: 25).
Georgian-Zan *tkw-am- : tk(w)-m- 'to speak, say':
Georg. tkvam- : tkm- 'to speak, say';
Megr. tkum-; Laz [tkum-].
This verb stem is derived from Common Kartvelian *tkw- with an extension *-am : -m. It is well known in Old Georgian where both grades of the ablaut alternation have been registered. The zero grade occurs in the form of tkum-: cf. arasada egre vis utkuams kacsa 'never man spoke so' Jn. 7.46 alongside the action noun tkuma-. Cf. Megrelian action noun tkumua-.'
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