སྟོན
Tibetan edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-twaŋ (“to see; to show”). Causative of མཐོང (mthong, “to see”) (STEDT).
Pronunciation edit
- Old Tibetan: /*ston/
- Lhasa: /tɛ̃˥˥/
- Batang: /tẽ˥˥/
- Zêkog: /hton/
- Bla-Brang: /hton/
Verb edit
སྟོན • (ston) (nominal form སྟོན་པ)
- (transitive) to show
- (transitive) to face, to front, to look towards
- (transitive) to point out, to indicate, to describe, to explain, to teach
- (transitive) to speak, to tell
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of སྟོན
Derived terms edit
- འགྲེམས་སྟོན ('grems ston)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
སྟོན • (ston)
Zangskari edit
Noun edit
སྟོན (ston)