Chinese and Sumerian, page 122

SUMERIAN

Cyl. A. 16. 21), silver. KUGGA= KUNGA, GUNGA; and KUG zs akin to KUN, to shine. (Cf NAGGA, lead, for the implied changes of sound.)

KU-BABBAR (from KU BAR-BAR), silver (?); KU, bright + BABBAR, white, glistening (C. 7. xii. 6)—the Sun-character.

KUR-GIL, KUR-GI, the £ur-gz bird, A ssyr.(loan-word) kur-ki, prob.domestic fowl (la Aramaic, 8'2N3 the crane. Cf. the variety of Chinese applcations.) Vid. MA. p. 437.

KU, fish (C. Z. xi. 24). 1818. (From GU; GU-N?) Alsoread GA (dial.?).

KUD (1), to cut off; to decide, judge, settle a case; (to stop, hinder, resist, oppose). 356. Vzd. DI, to judge.

KUD (2) zz NI-KUDDA, tillage,—of a field (éviitu eg: Br. 366). KUD (3), to take counsel; to consult.

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KUD (4) 7 NI-KUDDA, taxes; imposts. 11993.

KU(G)-DIM, silversmith; worker in precious metals, gold or silver. Cf. ZA-DIM, stone-worker; and wid. KUG (GUG=GUNG, GUN), silver.

KUKKI, sweet; good —/o the taste. KUK=GUG=DUG, good. 3351.

KUKKU, from KUK=GIG (¢.2.) : to be or become dark; darkness. Ved. GIG, GA(G)-GIG. CC. 7. x1. 36. 8938 ff.

KUL (also ZIR; g.v.), SHUK-KUL (vid. SHE, SHUG, corn), seed; sown land; cornfield; crop; and even palmgrove. (Zhecharacter was called Tree

Vidos* v2 455 5° 111, |

CHINESE K. in, J. gin, silver; money. 13253. Amoy gun. po, fa, A. ba, white. 9370. O.5S. pat,

bat: P.840. Szlver 2s commonly called poh-kin, A. bak-kim, the white metal. 2032. (pai, pak, ba, white; bright; pure. 8556. A modification of the Sun-character.)

ki, kie, J. kei, A. ke, a fowl; kung-ki, a cock. 810. Of other hirds: shan-ki, pheasant (‘hill bird’) ; chu-ki, ‘bamboobird’, a kind of partridge; ho-ki, ‘ firefowl’, turkey. The albatross 1s ‘Seafowl Mother’; che Eastern curlew, chang-ki, ‘variegated fowl’. Lzkemany Sumerian animal names, also of plants : ‘Fowl’s-leg Child’, kit‘ui-tzii, and ‘Hairy Fowl’s Legs’, maou-ki-tui,two kinds of Potentilla.

ngii, yii, i, K. 6 J. gyo, A. ngi, fish. 13510. O. S. ngu, gu. R. 195.

k‘tit, kiieh, K. kidl, J. ket-, A. ktiet, to cut off; to decide; to settle; k‘tit-tiin (do, tan, dan, 12149), to give judgement. 3219.

ku, fét, A. k‘ut, to work in the fields. 6265.

k‘u, k‘o, k‘ou, K. J. kwa, taxes; revenue. To counsel; take counsel. 6094. (The word may have lost final -t, before zt was written with P. 492.)

yin-chiang, ngén-tséng, ngying-dziang, ngén-tong, silversmith (including goldsmith: Vid. Morrison, Eng. and Ch. Dict. p. 191). 1246.

hou, hau, hoa, hao, hée, K. ho, J. k, good; 7 4¢k Tone to love; to like.

3889. O.S. kok. hak, heik, he, hei, hék, K. hik, J. koku, black; dark. 3899. R. 203; P. 862

kek,

*ho, hwo, wo, hu, 0. S. gvod. ku-t, grain ; corn; crops; grainin the fields. 3943. R. 115. (P. 167: ? kut, ku-k.) (Ze character ts the Tree-symbol slightly