cāk
See also: cak, čak, and čăk
Tocharian B
Etymology
From Early Middle Chinese 石 (MC d͡ʑiᴇk̚) 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
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