atik [Galo]

In Arunachal Pradesh, ? – 21st century, a unit used to describe a quantity of large leaves, for example fan palm leaves, or leaves of plants from the banana family. Apparently the leaves are counted and the standard number is 40. But (also?) it may be a unit of capacity, about a bushel.

The classifier for this unit is tiK- (page 148)

Galo Welfare Society.
Galo-English Dictionary with English-Galo Index. International Edition.
Compiled by the Galo Language Development Committee.
Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India: Galo Welfare Society, 2009.
Page 12.

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