In:
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 10, No. 4 ( 1942-02), p. 954-975
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 suffix na “in”—or in the case of ẖam , with the negation ma (or mi )—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 of yin , at least unstressed nature of the words. In this connection we may note that the separating shad , 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 and kyin , 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 the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (HJAS.) , where the same change has been suggested for the instrumental suffix.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0041-977X
,
1474-0699
DOI:
10.1017/S0041977X00090145
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1942
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2049023-9
SSG:
1
SSG:
6,31
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