སད

Tibetan

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*sat/
Lhasa: /sɛː˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*sat/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: sae^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sɛː˥˨/

Etymology 1

For frost/cold air: Starostin connects this with Chinese 雪 (xuě).

Noun

སད • (sad)

frost, cold air, coldness

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *swat (“awake”).

Verb

སད • (sad) (nominal form སད་པ)

awaken, wake, wake up
discriminate, sort, examine

Related terms

གཉིད་སད (gnyid sad)

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