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ṣank

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Tocharian B

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Etymology

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From Early Middle Chinese 升 (MC sying).[1][2]

Noun

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ṣank n

  1. a measure of volume, roughly equal to 1.1 liters or 1.2 quarts
  2. a dry measure, roughly equal to a quart or liter

References

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  1. ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (1999) “ṣank”, 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:
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