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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 (twaŋ "call by name"), and apparently not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (twaŋ "scoop, bore", "cupping horn or glass"), and apparently not mentioned by Luce 1981. May be related to the "lathe" sense of Etymology 2.”
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan*t/duŋ(“middle, navel”); cognate with the second syllable of Akha(caˆ tah˯, “navel”), as well as perhaps Old Chinese中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs, “middle”) (STEDT).
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Apparently not mentioned by STEDT, while Luce adduces no cognates.[1] May be linked to the "cupping device" sense of Etymology 2, as both "bore" through things.”
^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “147. to Scoop out on lathe; to scoop out)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 78