STEDT — The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus

Plain words match forms, meanings, and language names. Commas separate alternatives (frog, snail); inside a field, quote the alternatives together (gloss:"frog, snail"). Quote a value containing spaces. Narrow one axis with field:value — fields combine: try gloss:dog subgroup:Kiranti; repeating a field requires both at once (gloss:body gloss:hair). Every example below is runnable:

gloss:hand

the meaning

form:mruk

the form itself

language:Lotha

the language name

subgroup:"Central Loloish"

a Stammbaum subtree by name, abbreviation (PKC), or number (2.3); alone, it browses the subtree

group:Kuki-Chin

exactly that group, none of the subgroups beneath it (same keys, matched whole)

source:TBL

records from matching sources (abbreviation or author/title)

pos:v

part of speech (v, n, adj…)

pform:lak

a reconstruction's form

pgloss:hand

a reconstruction's meaning

tag:695

forms tagged to etymon #695

source:TBL pos:n subgroup:Loloish

fields stack — every axis narrows the same results