Tanım
•walking stick · staff; rod; cane; wand · flogging with a stick
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *daŋʔ): semantic 木 + phonetic 丈 (OC *daŋʔ). Thought to be the same word as 丈 (OC *daŋʔ) "gentleman, older man, husband", i.e. "someone who walks with, or leans on, a staff"; though unlikely. According to Schuessler (2007), this is an areal word. Compare Mizo tiang (“staff, stick, crutch”), Old Khmer toŋ (“shaft, stock, shank”), -toṅa (“stock, stem, stick”), and…