Chinese and Sumerian, page 115

SUMERIAN

I-SHIB, bright; shining; pure. 10364. Cognate: GUB, zd. (Br. 1103.)

ISH-SHEBU, the king. Written as a composite Numeral, Il XXX; we. 3 x 30= Three Generations, implying, ‘Long live the King!’(?) JZf III XXX = 3 Sosses+ 30, 2. ¢. 210, the hing may be styled ‘Thrice Seventy Years’, —as the Ch. Emperor ts Wan-sui ye, ‘Father of Ten Thousand Years’.

(GF Psi xe, TO; xxi. 5.) 11886,

IZ-Z1, I-Z1, awall; side. (From ZAG, ZIG, ZI, side; wall; g.v., and 1D, I, hand, side; ¢.v.) 3989; 57009.

IZI, fire. S> I. 11. (from IZ, GIZ, GUZ or GAZ; cf. GISH-BAR, GIBIL, Fire, Burning; the Fire-god. GIZ=GISH, GI. Cf also UZ, US, another value of the character: Br. 4578=GUZ.) Dialectic MU (WU), fire (C. 7. xii. 8); o£ MU-BAR = GISHBAR. (MU =MUZ, MUSH, MISH.) Also read PIL (BIL, BAL; a younger equivalent of BAR=MASH, MAZ), burn. Cf Me. gal, fire.

I-ZIN, E-ZEN, I-ZUN, a feast or religious festival; str. fixed or appointed time. Festivals usually recur at fixed entervals (cf. Heb. DY). The Root appears in Assyrian ezennu, izunnu, estnnu (variants which suggest a loanword); and, further,in yi (=) and adannu, \J¥ (?)—4311; D. 364 note.

KA, the mouth; utterance; word; speech; talk. Also read GUG, GU, tn sense of speaking: g.u—511; 503 f.

KA-BA, KA-BAD, opening of the mouth; KA-BAR, opened mouth. 555; 606; 609.

KA, GI, GU, fruit, zz KA-LUM, dates (suluppu) ; *GI-RIN, GU-RIN, *GURUN, fruit, esp. of trees (zxbu) : vid. f1WB.—764; 10155; 5907; 10179. (LUM = RUM, RUN = RIM, RIN: other words for fruit ? of. KA-RAN.)

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CHINESE

of a tree; stake; post = Sumerian GISH. 13014.)

yi, ngét, K. il, hil, J. git-, mountain. 13160.

yeh, ship, Am. yap, S%. yih, A. viep, bright light. 13021.

sa, J.so (=sap), thirty. 9533.

shih, shat, shi, she, si, K. se, J. sei, A. t'e, a generation of thirty years. 9969. O..S. shi-p: P. 152. (Phoned. in ip, tep, leaf.)

huo, hoa, hwi, hou, ho, K. A. hwa, J. ka, C. fo, W. fu, fire; flame; to burn. 5326. O.S.kwot, kat: R. 86; P. 59. Cf. Mongol gal. Dial. fo, fu, represent Sumerian MU.

*hsiin, ts‘un, shing, 4m. sun, dzing, sung, sitin, a period of ten or of seven days. A set time, 4864. Used also for the period of a year or of ten years, 4g. hsiin-sui, a year (/¢. period-year) ; tsih hsiin, seven Astin = seventy years.

*kou, k'au, K. ku, J. kd, the mouth; speech ; utterance; talk. 6174. R. 30; P. 51; ko-k, go-k.

pa, pat, open-mouthed ; the mouth open (WW.). 8505. (Written k‘ou + pa, like the Sumerian K A-BA.)

*kwo, kwi, ku, ko, J. kwa, ka, fruit, esp. tree-fruit. 6627. (P. 492 kap? of Chalmers, 147 and 250.)