Chinese and Sumerian, str. 137

SUMERIAN

MUN-SHUB, hair (sér¢u) ; of awoman’s head (KZ. vi. 78); also of the body ; fur, wool, fleece, &c. of animals (=SIG, hair, fur, wool; g.v.). 10812. Cf SHUB, to fall down; let fall.

MU-SAR, name-writing; signature ; attested document, or inscription with the author’s name. 1268-1271. Vid. MUN, MU, a name; SAR, to write.

MU-SAR, a garden or bed of plants. Br. 4362. MU, the coming forth or shooting of vegetation (Br. 4303 ; also vead MA, to come forth; to beget; Br. 4302; 4304); prod. also greens; vegetation; cf Br. 4301: SAR, to grow, thrive, flourish (‘urvrdé, Br. 4342); GISH-SAR (= MU-SAR), garden; orchard; plantation; palmgrove. MU, offspring; scion; son; seed (C. 7. xii. 8).

MUSH, land (métwm). 3017. C. T. xii. 11. Cf MADA, MA, zd.

MUSH, snake; serpent. 7636ff. (MUSH = GUSH = GUR;; gerhaps akin to GIR, scorpion, the symbol for which also denotes viper, or the like.)

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CHINESE

evening. 5222. (mun, gun.) Also min, turbid. Vid. Ed. and Callery. Pa a7:

ming, men, K. miéng, J. bei, my6, dark ; night. 7954. ds a Phonetic, also mien, 7956.

sip, tsik, zi, evening; dusk. 4110.

mou, mao, mau, moa, mde, K. mo, J. m6, bo, hair; fur. 7679. R. 82. moushau, hair; fur; long hair. 9756.

mei, mi, miefi, eyebrows (wrztten hair above eye). 7714. O.S. mu(n): P. 554.

mung, méng, a long flowing mane. 7777. man, ban, beautiful hair. 7640.

myn, men, mien, floss; flossy; downy ; woolly ; 7884; of. 7883.

shui, sui, ch‘ui, a maiden’s tresses (falling loose on each side). 2835. O..S. top, shup: P. 456.

meng-sui, hair hanging at the side of a woman's head; meng, mon, hair; feathers; wool (Amoy dia/.). mon-sop = MUN-SHUB.

ming, a name; sie, to write; J. mei, sha.

*miu, miao, miau, mieu, mide, mioa, K. mio, sprouts; shoots; growing grain ; progeny; posterity. 7851. (Szmzlar character : see Sign-List, Nos. 13; 46.)

land; fields.

mou, mu, K. mu, acre; 8050. Cf 8037(?).

fui, wai, kwai, hui, hwi, wi, foi, fui, k‘ui, hwai, hti, K. hwei, hwe, various snakes; 5182. Vid. 2932 for primitive character which same as Sum. (Cf. fap. mushi, insects and worms; ma-mushi, an adder or viper.) O..S. kut, wut. Cf P. 22.

(G, 2932, now read ch'ung, in the sense reptiles and ‘insects’ generally, was anciently hui. 293325 the correct form

for chung = TUM; ¢. a.)