ᅘᅧ다

Etymology
Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Possibly from earlier.

The base meaning seems to be 'to drag'. The sense 'to light (a fire)' probably comes from the fact that fires were typically started with a piece of steel struck or dragged on a flintstone, before matchsticks were introduced.

Verb

 * 1) to drag, to pull
 * 2) to light (a fire)
 * 3) to extract silk from a silkworm cocoon
 * 4) to play a stringed instrument with a bow
 * 5) to saw