http://www.zhongwen.com/d/185/d68.gif /da`o/

Rhetoric in Ancient China, p. 229 http://books.google.com/books?id=72QURrAppzkC&pg=PA229&lpg=PA229&dq=foot+character+dao+Chinese&source=bl&ots=lKfKGylXj8&sig=Blyuhibpy-jWm2LkZsNVMqIuiG0&hl=en&ei=eADySbmrPNuMtgfvrsCjDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8 the oracle-bone inscription form of the character is a composite of 3 signs : a head over a foot, the pair enclosed in a roadway

JAOS 114 (1994), "Some Old Chinese Words", p. 628 http://www.jstor.org/pss/606168

http://chinalinks.osu.edu/c-links3.htm

http://www.geocities.com/sgoertzen/Chinese/index.html [21] Middle Chinese Spelling Construction Kit. Stanley Goertzen's web site on historical Chinese phonology. (Eng/Big5/GB)

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wbaxter/OCetym.html [22] Old Chinese Etymologies. Online etymological information on Chinese words (under construction), from http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wbaxter/ William Baxter's Home Page, which also contains links to courses, resources, etc. [ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wbaxter/etymdict.html An Etymological Dictionary of Common Chinese Characters ] [ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wbaxter/links.html including http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/stedt/ (not available; see archive.org) The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Project (STEDT) ]

http://starling.rinet.ru/intrtext.htm (not available; see archive.org) [23] Sergei Starostin's Home Page. Visit his online, searchable Etymological Databases (see his http://starling.rinet.ru/Intrab.htm (not available) Introduction). These include: his Sino-Tibetan Etymology database (for Chinese and four other S-T languages); his Chinese Database of circa 4000 characters with entries in characters, modern (Beijing)/Middle Chinese/Old Chinese, fanqie, dialect pronunciations, Shuowen gloss, translation, etc.; and the Chinese Dialects database (based on William S-Y Wang and Chin-Chuan Cheng's DOC (Dialects of China) (a.k.a. "Dictionary on Computer"), containing the original 17 dialects in the Hanyu Fangyi Zihui (1962 ed.), Middle Chinese rhyme table categories, plus Shanghai, early Mandarin (Zhongyuan Yinyun), and info entered into the Chinese Database. (See also S. Starostin's help page on Using the Etymological Database and his key to Encoding of Special Symbols.) (English/Russian)

http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/zhuyin.htm zhu-yin (phonetic script)

http://starling.rinet.ru cached at

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:v6ihW_JeeYwJ:starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi%3Froot%3Dconfig%26morpho%3D0%26basename%3D%255Cdata%255Cbush%255Ckkhet%26first%3D61+etymology+Dao&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (or see archive.org)