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Glyph origin
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Etymology 1
“To say aloud, to tell” () > “to recite” > “to read”.

Cognate with 🇨🇬. sets up for this, and also includes 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Related to.

STEDT provisionally sets up, relating it to.

argues that “read” cannot be the primary meaning, since existence of the concept “to read” before the invention of writing is questionable. There is likely no writing at the time of the split between Chinese and other Sino-Tibetan languages, therefore the Tibetan word may represent a borrowing from Chinese.

Definitions

 * 1)  to say aloud; to tell
 * 2) to read (silently); to peruse
 * 3) to read aloud; to read out
 * 4) to study
 * 5) to pronounce (a character, a word, etc.)
 * 6) pronunciation
 * 1) to read aloud; to read out
 * 2) to study
 * 3) to pronounce (a character, a word, etc.)
 * 4) pronunciation
 * 1) to study
 * 2) to pronounce (a character, a word, etc.)
 * 3) pronunciation
 * 1) to pronounce (a character, a word, etc.)
 * 2) pronunciation
 * 1) pronunciation
 * 1) pronunciation

Etymology 2
A late attested reading. thinks it is from the *-s pronunciation of Etymology 1.

Definitions

 * 1) short pause in reading; part of a sentence; clause

Kanji

 * 1) to read
 * 2) (とう) phrase, clause, part of a sentence, e.g. 読点 (lit. "clause mark", i.e. comma)

Etymology 1
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Etymology 2
From.