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STEDT #5405

*l-ta-s/t

LOOK
Proto-Bodic

Intermediate reconstructions

Kiranti*ta- ‘SEE’

Notes

WT reflects three allofamic variants: an open syllable as well as forms with both the *-t and *-s suffixes.

This root seems restricted to Tibetan dialects and the Kiranti languages, with the latter forms likely borrowings from the former.

Chinese comparandum

睹 OC *to, GSR #45c’ ‘look; see’; Schuessler 2007:218 *tâʔ; B & S 2011: *tˁaʔ; Mand. dǔ.

Reflexes & cognates23 reflexes · 7 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

2.1.2.1Tibetan13

Tibetan (Sherpa:Helambu)tã◦genmorpheme v‘look’Bishop 89: 3.4.9
Spitita◦jemorpheme v‘see / look’Bodh 91: 3.4.9
Tibetan (Written)lta-basuffix ‘look, watch’Zhang Liansheng 88: 88
Tibetan (Written)lta-basuffix rgyaŋmorpheme-lta rgyabmorpheme-pasuffix ‘look, gaze’Zhang Liansheng 88: 90
Tibetan (Written)ltad-mosuffix ‘sight; scene; spectacle’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 456
Tibetan (Written)ltas ‘miraculous sign; omen’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 456

2.3Kiranti1

2.3.2Southern Kiranti2

Kulungdat-emorpheme ‘<see> to be visible [it is visible]’Rai 75 Kul

2.3.4Western Kiranti4

Bahingta- v.‘see, to find, to get’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 150
Sunwar'ta- v.‘see, to get (e.g. an inheri’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 150
Sunwar'tā-cāmorpheme v‘see’Hale 73 CSD: 10b2.14
Sunwar√ᴸta- (ᴸtɔ-) v.‘see’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 150

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5405, *l-ta-s/t ‘LOOK’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5405
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p. 456
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5405,
  title  = {{*l-ta-s/t 'LOOK'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5405},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5405}
}