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Tocharian B
Etymology
From Early Middle Chinese 錢 (MC dzjen|tsjenX) or Late Old Chinese 錢 (OC *ʔslenʔ, *zlen).[1][2]
Noun
cāne ? (plural cāni)
- cash (a unit of currency equivalent to a Chinese bronze or copper coin)
- (in the plural) money
References
- ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “cāne*”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 271
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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: