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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 (cañ "fly off scatteringly, as sparks, glance off"), and doesn't seem to be mentioned by Luce 1981.”
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan*dziŋ(“relatives, ancestors”), with semantic shift "ancestors" > "line of ancestors" > "line (generic)" (STEDT). Cognate with Old Chinese親 (OC*sʰin, *sʰins, “relatives”).
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Another theory (from where?) compares the word to Proto-Sino-Tibetan*t/duŋ(“center”), which seems incorrect. Words from this root include Tibetanགཞུང(gzhung, “middle, center”) and Old Chinese中 (OC*tuŋ, *tuŋs, “middle”). Luce compares the word to a character with composition ⿰車尚, Middle Chinese transliteration t'âŋ, meaning "a row", which doesn't seem to show up in handwriting recognition sites like qhanzi.”
^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AÑ Finals (19. in a Row; in Succession; Continuous)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 62