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SUMERIAN A-MI, A-GIG, A-MIA, A-GEA, E-GA,

high water ; flood ; current, of a river (aga; vid. Br. 11591-11593). Wratten water+dark. Vid. A, water; GE, GIG, MI(G), dark. Also E-BA (E-MA ?), 11534.

AK-KIL, cry of woe; lament; grief; mourning (2kA¢llu,; kellu,C.T7. xi. 25, 24). Possibly AK-KIL=AD-KIL dy assimilation. (AD from GAD.) Cf. AD-DU, lamentation (zzssatu); A, I, ID, to wail; A, a tear.

AL, Verbal Prefix of all 3 Persons. Worn form of GAL, man; g.v. (‘the man |, 22a speaker's mouth, might mean ‘I’, ‘you’, or ‘he’, acc. to context).

A-LAL, A-LA, a kind of demon (2%). (‘Seizer’; cf LAL, cabaiu, nasi, kamt, ‘to take’; ‘carry off’.)

A-LAD, one of the two kinds of colossi, representing guardian-spirits, set up in the doorways of temples and palaces (sédu ; Br. 486; 6233). Written god +strong. (for the other kind, vid. LAM, LAMMA, wrztten tn the same way, viz. god + strong.)

A-LAL, a vessel of wood or clay; box ; chest; jar; pitcher, &c. (alallum). (Det. Pr. wood or pottery.) Br. 5965. Also E-LAL (elallum). Cognate LUD, LUTU, vessel = DUG, zd. ¢. v.

A-LAM (G. 7xi. 18); 20 5)22);, A AN (Gud. B. i. 3, &c.); appearance, form, figure, likeness, image, statue (/dnw ; calmu). Written Two bulls’ heads (=hero) on a stand or stool (D. 108 ; of. 382. Br. 5741; 5742)—Cf LIM, value of the Eye char. (face? to see ®) ; vid. GIM, DIM, DAM, TAM, GIN, DEN, shape; likeness, &c.

A-LAN(M), zz ALAN-DIM, net (hamarW). T7202.

AM, zz GISH-A-AM, lotus (e/daggu). P.S.B.A. xvi. 197; 4 R. 27. 9a.

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CHINESE

*mik, kwét, mi, ku, mik, kauk, kwah, mih, rushing water. 6249. (Char. = water + dark, contracted, acc, to WW.)

*ai, ngai, yae, JA. ai, to wail; to grieve; grief, lamentation, mourning. 11. O.S. at, gat; P. 213.

ki, k'ét, K. kiol, kil, J. kit-, to be sorrowful. 1053. (f ki-ki, sorrowful, Sz II. v. IX. 3.)

la, lai, to grab at; to clutch; to carry off in the mouth (WW); totear. 6655. O, S. la-t (la-l), P. 535.

yi-lii, O..S. ut-lut (ov ul-lut, u-lut; P. 985 lut), ove of the two figures pasted on the doors or outer gates of Chinese houses to act as guardians. Their chief duty 2s to oppose the entrance of devils. The other 1s Shin-t'u or Shén-shu, whch sounds Like an echo of the Assyr. sédu or siddu. 12114. 13535; 6833. Cf. also shou-t‘ou (‘ beast-head’), stone or bronze animals at gates. 10022.

lao, 1d, lau, loa, basket; hamper. 6788.

O..S. lo-t, R. 125. (Det. wood.)

lo, loa, corn-baskets. 7297. O.S. lat; P, 1031.

lei, loui, lai, vase; jar. 6838. (Ded.

pottery.) O.S. lot; f. P. 985.

(dam, dom), chwang, chong, form, shape, appearance. 2756. Written bed+ dog. (Vid. Chalmers 118; R. 90.)

lam, lan, to look at. 6735.

lim, lien, kiam, the face. 7140. P. 911.

yung, Zung, K. yong, appearance ; the

face, features, countenance. 5754. O. S. dong, dom. P. 613. lan, lam, a two-leaved spring-net. 6754.

Iwan, lan, liin, 16", a net. 7455. am, han, K. ham, J. kan, lotus-buds. 3811.