Electronic Etymologies: The Root Canal
The primary focus of the STEDT project is the production of the Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus, organized by semantic fields. For background on Tibeto-Burman and introduction to methodology we use, see the Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman. The first volume of the Dictionary is Body Part Nomenclature, which will be published in smaller, bite-sized chunks. The first chunk, consisting of etymologies relating to reproductive anatomy (referred to in-house as "the reproductive fascicle") has been published under the title The Tibeto-Burman Reproductive System: Toward an Etymological Thesaurus . Further publications will be in electronic format and will be available at this URL:
http://stedt.berkeley.edu/etymologies.html
Volumes of the Dictionary and Thesaurus
The current projection for the entire series is as follows:
| Volume 1 | Body Parts |
| Volume 2 | Animals |
| Volume 3 | Natural Objects, Plants, Foods |
| Volume 4 | Kinship Terms, Ethnonyms, Social Roles |
| Volume 5 | Culture, Artifacts, Religion |
| Volume 6 | Verbs of Motion, of Manipulation, and of Production |
| Volume 7 | Adjectival Verbs |
| Volume 8 | Abstract Nouns and Verbs, Psychological Verbs, Verbs of Utterance |
| Volume 9 | Shape, Size, Color, Measure, Number, Time, Space |
| Volume 10 | Grammatical words |
Other Publications
In addition to the main volumes, STEDT also publishes a monograph series. Descriptions and order information for these and other publications is available on the STEDT publications page.
