kâng
- To take or follow an indirect, winding, or lengthy route to a destination, especially when a more direct one is available.
- (figurative) To communicate in a deliberately indirect, circumlocutory, or evasive manner; to beat around the bush.
- Example Sentences:
- The road was closed, so we had tokang through the old village paths to get to the city.
- Stopkang-ing and just tell me what you really think. What's the point?
FromProto-Kuki-Chin*kaaŋ, fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*kaŋ(“to burn, roast”)
kâng (stem IIkan)
- (intransitive) toburn, be onfire
(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)
kâng (stem IIkân)
- to beliftedabove theground
