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: daen^f
- (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”).

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