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Measuring the sky

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The names

tribal 1 · borrowed 1

NameLanguageMeaningRegister
suk-chenMizo (Lushai)
the Lushai Hills, Assam (now Mizoram)
'a pestle's length'
Lorrain's example sentence is a traveller judging whether the village is reachable before dark.
tribal
சங்கு
caṅku
Tamil
Tamil Nadu
'a stake, a peg, a spike'
The Tamil Lexicon's second sense at this headword, after 'stake, peg, spike'.
borrowed

Sources

  1. J. Herbert Lorrain, Dictionary of the Lushai Language, Bibliotheca Indica Work No. 261 (Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, 1940), s.v. suk-chen, p. 421 link
  2. Tamil Lexicon, published under the authority of the University of Madras (Madras, 1924-1939), s.v. சங்கு⁵, vol. III p. 1229 link