About STEDT

The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus is a record of the reconstructed vocabulary of the Sino-Tibetan language family: proto-forms, the attested words that descend from them, and the semantic categories that organize them.

Provenance

STEDT was compiled at the University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of James A. Matisoff. This site is built faithfully from the STEDT v1.0 public release (2017): etymon numbers and the underlying records are preserved, and no new reconstructions have been added. It is a read-only republication intended to keep the resource available and citable independently of any single institution.

Citing

Each entry has a stable address of the form https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/<number>, and the etymon number is the citable identity. A ready-made citation appears at the foot of every entry. When citing a particular reflex, cite its original source as well.

License

STEDT v1.0 was released for public use; the licensing terms for this republication are being finalized.

Contributing

Corrections and additions are welcome. The data lives in flat files on GitHub; proposed changes are reviewed before they go live.

Abbreviations

ST

Sino-Tibetan

TB

Tibeto-Burman

PTB

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

HPTB

Matisoff (2003), Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman

STC

Benedict (1972), Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus

PLB

Proto-Lolo-Burmese

PKC

Proto-Kuki-Chin

PTani

Proto-Tani