Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never inventedpilelexitron
pile up; heap up; accumulate; stack uplexitron
heap; pile; stack; moundwiktionary
troop; force; band; company; brigadewiktionary
division; office; bureauwiktionary
to pile up; to pile; to accumulate; to heap; to stack upwiktionary
Classifier for a troop, force, band, company, or brigade, or for piles or heaps. ⇒ all nouns using this classifierwiktionary
In the readings
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another sells a big pile of second-hand clothes.
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Built from
From Proto-Tai *koːŋᴬ (“to heap up”). Cognate with Lao ກອງ (kǭng), Lü ᦂᦸᧂ (k̇oang), Tai Nüa ᥐᥩᥒ (koang), Tai Dam ꪀꪮꪉ, Shan ၵွင် (kǎung), Zhuang gong (“classifier for heaped-up things”). The "troop; bureau" sense is likely a semantic extension of the "pile" sense, via a back-formation from กองทัพ (gɔɔng-táp, “army”).