tauk meaning
Cognate with Tibetan à½à½´à½ (dug, â poison; toxin â), à½à½à½´à½ (gdug), à½à½à½´à½à¼à½ (gdug pa, â vicious; evil; poisonous â), Burmese áá±á¬ááº (tauk, â to suffer from toxicity; to be ill; to be poisonous â). A departing tone variant, meaning âto poisonâ, is preserved in Cantonese, Hakka and Min dialects. It is derived from the sense âpoisonâ with the *âs suffix in Old Chinese. Pronunciation 1