cāk

See also: cak, čak, and čăk

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Early Middle Chinese 石いし (MC dzyek) or Old Chinese 石いし (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:

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

[2] 
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:

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