For one who has abandoned craving and is free from
grasping,
who is skilled in etymology and terms, knowing
the groupings and sequences of letters,
this is the final birth.
This one is called
the Great Being,
the Great Sage.
Dhammapada (24.19)
STEDT is the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus, a linguistics research project at the University of California at Berkeley. It is directed by Professor James A. MATISOFF of Berkeley's Linguistics Department, and administered through the International and Area Studies division. Our goal is the publication of an etymological dictionary of Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST), the ancestor language of the large Sino-Tibetan language family. This family includes Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, and over 200 other languages spoken in South and Southeast Asia. The project was founded in 1987 and has enjoyed the support of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The first major dissemination of STEDT research came in the form of A Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction, an introduction to the reconstructed phonology and lexicon of Proto-Tibeto-Burman and the philosophical underpinnings on which the STEDT project rests. This volume (HPTB) included over 1500 reconstructed Proto-Tibeto-Burman roots. In the next phase of the project, additional STEDT etymologies and data will be published systematically, by semantic field, in electronic form.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities under the following grants:
National Science Foundation, Division of Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics, Grant Nos. 0345929, BNS-86-17726, BNS-90-11918, DBS-92-09481, FD-95-11034, SBR-9808952, BCS-9904950, BCS-0345929, BCS-0712570.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs, Grant Nos. RT-20789-87, RT-21203-90, RT-21420-92; Preservation & Access Reference Materials, Grant Nos. PA-22843-96, PA-23353-99, PA-24168-02, PA-50709-04, PM-50072-07.
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