cāk

See also: cak, čak, and čăk

Tocharian B edit

Etymology edit

From Early Middle Chinese 石 (MC dzyek) or Old Chinese 石 (OC *djaɡ).^[1] In modern Chinese languages, the original sense for "weight measure" has been displaced by an alternative reading based on 擔.

Noun edit

cāk ? (plural cakanma)

a dry measure, roughly equivalent to 100 quarts or 3 bushels

References edit

^ Adams, Douglas Q. (1999) “cāk”, in A dictionary of Tocharian B (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN

[1] 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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