Tibetan dan, cin,kyin, yinandẖam.
Year: 1942
Type: article
Abstract: The words to be treated in this paper show one common aspect in their etymologies. It is suggested that they have arisen through coalescence of their etymons with the suffixna“in”—or in the case ofẖam, with the negationma(ormi)—and that after the coalescence the final vowel was lost. The latter assumption will have to be linked up with the enclitic, or in the case ofyin, at least unstressed nature of the words. In this connection we may note that the separatingshad, the Tibetan comma, will invariably be found after, never before . The same holds good of , though punctuation is much rarer after . In the case of andkyin, the enclisis is moreover strongly borne out by the phonetic changes which their initial consonants undergo in assimilation to the endings of the preceding words. For the assumed treatment of the final vowel, I may refer to my paper “Certain Tibetan Suffixes and their Combinations” (in vol. v of theHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (HJAS.), where the same change has been suggested for the instrumental suffix.
Author: Walter Simon
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2102149128