Chinese and Sumerian, S. 91

SUMERIAN

the spine (8524; BPS. 98 n. 2); UR, loins, buttocks (séuu, t8du, 4832, 4835): of. BAR, arku, arkdtu, 1736f; A-BA, A-GA, 7@., 11367f. (BA-R= GA-R.) Pauct.: the back below the shoulders, with the loins and legs. D. 312. EL (from GUL, MUL, to shine, zadéiu), bright; pure (edu); to shine (eélu) ; joy ( EL-LU, résat). Cognate: KET (Gil), star; GUL, UL) rejoicing. Br. 11170ff. Written SILAG (RAG, woman, wsed phonetically for LAG), light +sheen (f ZA-LAG, nuru sa att, vid. ZA-GIN). E-LIM, a kind of wild-deer (stag), or mountain-goat (ditanu = Heb. }\0"). Met. the god Bel; the king; cf the god Aé=furdhu, rock-goat; Ezek. xxxiv.17; Dan. viii. 20f. Vd. 1-DIM, heavy. (2) the £usartkku ; a mythical animal in the train of Tidmat, afterwards a star. It was portrayed on the doors of the temple of Merodach at Babylon. Br. 8883-8887. (From KUSA-RIG? ¢ DA-RAG, rock-goat, and UZ=GUZ, goat. The brood of Tiamat, the Sea, would naturally be scaly ; as some of them are portrayed in Babylonian art. See the‘ Dragon’ in Delitasch, ‘Bab. and Bib.’, fig. 37.) EME (EM), tongue; speech; language (4sanu; pi). Br. 835f. (Written I, speech + ME, speak.) GEM,GAM? Cognate: EN, magical utterance (sztt)? 10857. EME-KU, EME-SAL, the two main ‘dialects’ of Sumerian. (Lhe former expression 1s explained sin Suméri, ‘Tongue of Shumer’ or Babylonia: Z. A. iv. 434. KU may mean lords, nobles, ved. s.v. U-KU, king ; or zt may be a tribal or racial designation, ike hu, ku, the Mongols and Turkic tribes, G. 4930. Zhe latter phrase may characterize the softer dialect as‘ Women’s Speech’, or the language of infertors. The difference may have been one of conversational etiquette vather than of dialects in the strict sense of the word, a difference exemplified both in Chinese and in Fapanese.)

“CHINESE

seat, buttocks, ates, 6273. (kut =kur, gur.)

hou, K. hu, J. go, behind, of time and place; after; future. O..S. gu-t ?= GUR, 4025. (Written with Foot and Leg Radicals.)

hi, k'1, C. dm. hi, O. S. git (P. 248), bright; splendid. 4115f. git=gil. hi-hi, joyous, mirthful.

hi, J. ki, O. S. ki-t (P. 818), joy, 4073; f.4076-4078; hi, O..S. ki-t, lucky stars shining, 4079; hi, ki-t, hot; bright, 4080 (P. 818).

kyt, ket, kiek, K. kidl, clear ; pure, ror.

ling, O..S. lim, a kind of antelope or sheeplike deer (WW.). 7208. Cf lin, 7186.

ki, O. S. kit (P. 9) or kut, a large deer of

W. China. In Kiang-nan a small kind of fallow-deer. (WW.) 971. (KUS = kit, kut.)

ki, ki, dji, chi, kei, O..S. ki(t), gi(t), P. 435, one of the four fabulous animals of China, the ‘unicorn’. It has the body of a deer, the tail of an ox, the scales of a fish, one horn, &c. It is of good omen. 1044. luk, lu, 16k, a stag; adeer. 7434. The female of the k‘i 2s called lin, ling, wrétten deer +scales (contracted), 7186; and k‘i-lin, unicorn, perhaps represents KUSA-RIG.

ham, han, eifi, the tongue (prim. sense, long obs.). Chalmers, 248. 38009.

tim, tien, the tongue. Chalmers, 199. 11243 (to lick),

yen, in, ngien, ngiong, ye, yei, words; language. 13025. O.S.ngan, R. 149.

yem, yin, 4m. im, yéng, ing or eing, sound; pronunciation, e@g. po-yin, northern pronunciation or dialect; tuyin, local dialect. 13209. (Ch ¥ap. on, the sound of a character.) P.508 : gim, gin.