Wutunhua

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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kan (to see) +‎ -la (from): "from seeing".

Calque of Tibetan བལྟས་ན (bltas na), from the verb ལྟ (lta, to see). For an identical but unrelated semantic shift, compare Korean 보다 (boda).

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-kanla

  1. -er than, compared to indicates the object of a comparison.
    je-ge jjhakai zhungo-kanla xaige ga-li.
    This country is much smaller than China.
    (Quoted in Janhunen et al., p. 62)

References

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  • Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN
  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun[1], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN