The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (commonly abbreviated STEDT) was a linguistics research project hosted at the University of California at Berkeley.
[2] In addition, the International Conferences on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL) were mostly organized by STEDT project members since the 1990s.
The project maintains a large, publicly accessible lexical database of nearly one million records, with data on Sino-Tibetan languages from over 500 sources.
[4] Project members were known as "STEDTniks," and included Richard S. Cook, Zev J. Handel, Randy J. LaPolla, David Mortensen, Jackson Tianshin Sun, Jonathan P. Evans, Weera Ostapirat, Graham Thurgood, David Solnit, Kenneth VanBik, John B. Lowe ("J.B. Lowe"), Liberty Lidz, Daniel Bruhn, Dominic Yu, among other linguists.
[5] Preliminary results from the STEDT project were published in Matisoff's 2003 monograph Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction (HPTB).