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Romanization:MLCTS: tan • ALA-LC: tanʻ • BGN/PCGN: tan • Okell: tañ
Etymology 1
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (tan "accord, be suitable"). Wide variety of senses, all which MED groups together. However, there appear to be a few distinct sense groups:
to be worth, fit
to stop, cease and desist
worthless
numerical classifier for components, legs of a journey
No literature has seemed to attempt to deduce etymologies for most of these senses, save the "stop" sense.
For the "stop" sense: Luce tentatively compares Old Chinese停 (OC*deːŋ, “to stop”).
For the worthless sense: compare Mon တန်(“cheap”).”
^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AN Finals (12. to Halt, Stop a while)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 52
↑ 2.02.12.2Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net. (Look word up in the form တုန်.)
^ R. Halliday (1922) A Mon-English Dictionary, Bangkok: Siam Society, page 184 & 438
^ Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, →DOI, →ISBN, page 189: “Another OM verb, ‹tūn› ‘return, go back’ has developed into a particle denoting emphasis or topicality in LM.”