Chinese and Sumerian, page 102

SUMERIAN

GI-GUR, GI-BUR (sér. hole, pit; ved. KIR-RUD; BUR), to open; depth ; bottom,—of water. Br. 8730; 8636.

GID, GI, to drag or draw, to pull, ag. a chariot, a rope, &c. Also read SIR, to drag away; remove by force (xasdfu). (2) to belong,—in space or time ; long; lasting; enduring (as 2f drawn out); remote; distant (rdégu): Syn. SUD, long; distant: g.v. 7528; 7511f; 7532.

GU-GID, GU-GIG, GU-GI, to shut,

close,—house or door (sandgu sa 6202,

daltc). 7536; 3234f; 3246.

GID, GE, as sign of the Genitive (Postpos.). 5935. Vid. GE, this.

GID, GIDI, a dark day (dmu na'duru ; vid. D.W. 29) =GIG, black; wd. GE, GIG. (Written UG+KAN, day+dark. Vid. KAN.) 7856.

GI-DIM, a ghost or disembodied soul (ekimmu); umbra,; manes: C.T. xii. 16 (gi-di-im). As a malevolent agent, an evil spirit—A/so read GI-GIM (gi-gi-im): C. 7. xi. 15. Wretten onethird+ Ishtar = one-third belonging to Ishtar (Allatu), the Queen of Fades. (Cf. the Taourst doctrine of man’s three souls—san hun; of which at death one goes up to heaven, one goes down into the earth, and one slays by the corpse.) Vid. U-TUG.—The words GI-DIM, GI-GIM, ghost; disembodied soul; evil spirit (ekezene), are clearly compounds; and DIM may de cognate c.

DIN, TIN, life, living. (Cf also

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~ kop, kak, ho, gd, K. kip,

CHINESE

kia, ha, hia, yiio, J.ka, ge, O.S. ge (P.26), beneath; lower; bottom. 4230. Cf. Syn. 10902; also perhaps pi, A. ti, low. 8759.

kwét, kiut, K.kul, J. kot-, gu-, to dig out, excavate. 3231. Cf 4840; 6276.

pou, K. pu, J. fu, O..S. but, to split; to lay open. 9454. Cf also p'i, 9033-5.

i, ki, kie, O..S. srt (P. 408, si; Gf. P. 145), to drag, pull, haul off. 5356. Also read ki.

i, yi, ye, K. ydl, J. yei, et-, to trail; drag; pull; haul. 5475f. <Adso read sit, set, hsieh, A. tiet, za. (cf Sum. SIR).

hia, ha, ya, J. ka, ge (Phon.), O. S. k-t (P. 549); lasting; distant; long-enduring ; far-off. 4204. Cf. adso kiu, kau, ku,

’ fora long time(Zast or future); lasting. 2273. (P. 44, ku.)

.gat-, A. hiep, to shut; to close,—the mouth, door, &e. 3947.

ki, Kei, gi, K.J.A. ki, commonly so used in Fuhchau, instead of chior tih. O.S. gi(t): P. 435. (Demonstr., this, that= kiit, ket, zz. 3198.)

hei, H. het, dark; evil. (Of days, unlucky. G. 3899 compares our ‘ Black Monday ’.)

hak, hiah, Am, k‘iat, K. hal, J. kat-, ke-, A.kiet, deep uniform black (WW.). oer

yeh, wét, yih, black with stripes; faded. 13023. (O.S. git; mit.)

chien, chan, tsien, tsim, cham, A. tiem, a kind of ghost ordemon. 975 f. WW. ‘Man die, make ghost (kwei; zd. GAL, MUL, demon); ghost die, make chien’ =when a man dies, he becomes a ghost; whena ghost dies, it becomes a demon.

ki, kei, Am. ki, a ghost or demon which

bewilders men; devilish. 796. (S.) P. 856: ki(t), gi(t). ki, an ugly demon. 1042. (gi)t. P.

435: oe . hun, wén, hung, J. kon (2x rei-kon = linghun, the soul; kompaku=hun-po,