སྟོན
Tibetan
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-twaŋ (“to see; to show”). Causative of མཐོང (mthong, “to see”) (STEDT).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ston/
- Lhasa: /tɛ̃˥˥/
- Batang: /tẽ˥˥/
- Zêkog: /hton/
- Bla-Brang: /hton/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ston/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: daenf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /tɛ̃˥˥/
- Khams
- (Batang) IPA(key): /tẽ˥˥/
- Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA(key): /hton/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA(key): /hton/
Verb
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
Conjugation of སྟོན
Tense/Mood | Form | Wylie |
---|---|---|
Present | སྟོན | ston |
Future | བསྟན | bstan |
Past | བསྟན (archaic) བསྟནད | bstan bstand |
Imperative | སྟོན (archaic) སྟོནད | ston stond |
Derived terms
- འགྲེམས་སྟོན ('grems ston)
Noun
སྟོན • (ston)
- See སྟོན་ཀ (ston ka, “autumn”) and སྟོན་ཁ (ston kha, “autumn”).