Why's 攵 (to tap, to knock lightly) the semantic component of 致 (to convey to (archaic); cause; retire, resign; apply to; transmit; devote)?

scherzo · 2022-03-15T08:06:40+0000

How does 攵 or 攴 semantically appertain to 致? What semantic notion underlies them? Their meanings feel unrelated to me! Neither dictionary below answers my questions. 汉字源流字典 by 谷衍奎编 (2010), pp 1032-3. Axel Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007), pp 622-3.

By scherzo
March 15, 2022 at 08:06 AM in Vocabulary, idioms, word lists . . .

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