Chinese and Sumerian, S. 118

SUMERIAN

KI, KI-TA, the bottom; below; low; lower. 9638; 9672ff; cf. 9784.

KI-AG, beloved; darling; favourite. Vid. AG, AKA, to love. 9717f.

KI-BIR: wd. GI-BIL, burning. 10868.

KIN-BUR (KIMBUR?), KI-BUR, a bird’s hole (BUR) or nest. (BUR= GUR, KUR; cf KIR-RUD, hole, cave, where KIR=KUR.) 103109. (With KIN, bird, f TIN, SHEN, an MU-TIN, MU-SHEN, bird.)

KID, SHID, TAG, to break or cut off; cut out, &c.; to open—a mouth or a door, i404 ff; 1416.

KI-DUR, ‘place-dwell’, z¢ abode; 9824. DUR, TUSH, to dwell, 10523. The char. ts also TUG; and KU (from GU), to settle; place (an abode; Subtu), 10542.

KI-EL, written ‘place-clear’ (bright, pure), but perhaps read KEL, [which os velated to KIL (GUL), MUL, sparkle, star,and KUR, purified, pure (of sz/ver),]: a female slave; handmaid. 9831 f. KEL-TUR, ‘maid-young’ (‘little’), 2. 2 a virgin or maiden (datultum). Cf. perhaps KAL-TUR, ‘little male’ (idlu sihru), ¢.e. virgin youth (datélu) ; and the same word with Det. Fem. tn sense of virgin girl (catéltum), 5 R 42, 55, 560¢e. (See also EL, bright.)

KI-GAL, ‘place-great’, underground ; the grave; Hades. (GAL from GAN? Vid. GAL, great; DA-GAL, broad.) 9776. (Dial. SHI-WAL =51xw?) Cf UNUGI, URU-GAL; KI-MAG, coffin; sar-

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CHINESE

hia, ha, kia, ytio, hsia, J. ka, ge, lower; beneath; low. 4230. O.S. ge(t); P. 26.

ak (P. 900), ai, oi, e, ngai, yae, to love. 15. [hi, yi, J. kei, attached; hi-lwan, J. kei-ren, very much attached to (Uz. attached to—fond of). 4062. lwan, ren here= Sum. RAM, to love ?]

k‘in, k‘ém, k‘im, ch‘in, djing, birds; 2099.wo, u, ou, k‘ou, K. J. A. wa, a hole; a nest. 12688. O..S. wot, kot (R. 116: yiit, hidl, ket-, cave, hole, pit; P. 605 = G. 6300; cf 6301 ko-t = KUD; P. 700). See also s.v. BUR, a hole, hollow, &c.

ché, chyt, shyt, chiek, siek, K. chol, sdl, to break or snap off. 550.

ki, syt, kyt, siek, k‘diik, sol, kiol, to notch. 1053.—ki, to carve, cut in wood; read k‘ieh, tocut off. 1052. (oth P. 567: kit, sit.)

ki, J. kei, P. chi, to openm—a mouth, door, letter. (Cf. P. 683, the left part of which ts sit, nget, 2 1014.) 1110. P. 463.

ch‘u, ts‘u, shii, to abide; to dwell. from tu-k; cf P.672. ln 4th Tonea place; dwelling-place. 2660.

yi, ngii, ngi, K.u, J. gu, to dwell. 13557. yii-ch‘u, a dwelling; H. ngi-ch'u; @ comp. resembling KI-DUR.

kyt, ket, kieh, K. kiol, clear ; pure ; clean. 1491. Chaste, of a woman.

ki, chi, k‘i, dji, a courtesan or prostitute ; a singing girl. 862. O.S. kit, or gi-k: R. 65, P.78. (/f gi-k were the true O. S. we might compare Sum. NUGIG, harlot, hierodule.)

kw‘ang, k‘ong, the pit beneath a tomb; agrave. 6413; WW. 480, Written earth +broad. Chznese expressions like Ti-fu, ‘The Earth-palace’,z.e, the grave; the other world; ave essentially similar to the Sum. phrases. 10956.