-kanla

Wutunhua

Alternative forms

• -kanra (less common)

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

• IPA^(key): [kʰɛ̃lɑ]

Suffix

-kanla

1. -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.

   (Quoted in Janhunen et al., p. 62)

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^[1], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN