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Tocharian B
Etymology
From Early Middle Chinese 石 (MC dzyek) or Old Chinese 石 (OC *djaɡ).[1][2] In modern Chinese languages, the original sense for "weight measure" has been displaced by an alternative reading based on 擔.
Noun
cāk ? (plural cakanma)
- a dry measure, roughly equivalent to 100 quarts or 3 bushels
References
- ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (1999) “cāk”, in A dictionary of Tocharian B (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN
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2003, Alexander Lubotsky, Sergey Starostin, “Turkic and Chinese loan words in Tocharian”, in Bauer, Brigitte L.M., Pinault, Georges-Jean, editors, Language in Time and Space: A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, pages 257-269: