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Wutunhua
Alternative forms
Etymology
kan (“to see”) + -la (“from”): "from seeing".
Calque of Tibetan བལྟས་ན (bltas na), from the verb ལྟ (lta, “to see”). For an identical but unrelated semantic shift, compare Korean 보다 (boda).
Pronunciation
Suffix
-kanla
- -er than, compared to indicates the object of a comparison.
je-ge jjhakai zhungo-kanla xaige ga-li.- This country is much smaller than China.
References
- Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN
- Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN