Chinese and Sumerian, page 128

SUMERIAN

LAM, zz ME-LAM, splendour; brightness,—of the rising sun, dazzling or ovetpowering glory of kings and gods. 4572; 10416. (A value of the Firesymbol.) (ME = MEN = MUN = MUL, MEL, shine, sheen; g.v.)Cogn. LAG, zm ZA-LAG, light of fire ; shine.

LAM, to sprout; to shoot forth ; sprouts ; shoots; 2g. of palm; to grow; to bear fruit; Zvazs. to plant, cultivate, grow. 9041. Cogn. LUM, NUM, GUM, zd. 11183 ff. (Adin to SHAM, herbage; Det. of Vegetables and Plants below Trees.) (SHAM = NAM; ¢. NAMMU = SIMMU =SIG, green.) See also KU-NIN, BU-NIN, jungle or reedy marsh.

LAM-GA, a title of the Moon-god. 11166.

LAM z (TU, MU) SHA-LAM, a kind of official robe. Vzd. GUSH.

LAM, LAMMA, written god (sperzt) + mighty; 485; a guardian spirit, whose image was set up along with that of the A-LAD (another reading of the same ztdeogrant), on the right and left of the gateways of palaces and temples. (ALAD might be compared with Ch. lat, la, la-t, P.996, to destroy, G. 6697, or with la, la-t, to clutch, to pull, P. 535, G. 6655. But A-LAB, 2 R1, might be as genuine as A-LAD, 2R50; and i would agree with Ch. la, lap, nap, to pull, to drag, G. 6662. Moreover, lung, lom, dragon, P. 989, has also the Phonetic value \-p, s-p.) Vad. A-LAD.

LEL, fat, grease, ointment, oil; LI, written NI, to rub or anoint,—of a platform or altar. 5482; 5324 f. Vid. NI, zx NI-SAG, lard.

LI, in; a posthosition. 1120,

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CHINESE

lan, bright; glittering. 6717. (With Rad. fire.) Ming sing yu lan, ‘The bright stars are shining’ (MUNU, SIG, GAL, ME-LAM, cogz.).

lang, long, fire; blaze; light. 6763. O.S. lam. (Rad. fire.) Cognate: ch'ang; yang; nam, lam: wd. s.v. DAM zz IB-DAM.

lang, long, (K. nang), grass; weeds, 6767; lang, long, a kind of reed or marsh grass, 6769; lang, bambooshoots, 6768. P.300: Im, n-m.

lung (Sz.), jung (Zung), yung, ting, zung, dzung, J. sho (shong, shom), A. nyung, luxuriant growth of plants; young shoots. 5736 = P. 694 nong, nom (= lom), growing plants.

ning (=nim), len, lin, Am. léng, J. to(m), nio(m), dense vegetation (of weld plants and shrubs). 8335. fu-ning, hu-ning, jungle (vd. 3469).

nung, lung, K. nong, J. no(ng), do, to till the soil; to grow grain and trees, 8408 ; nung, yung, ngiung, lung, dense, thick,—of vegetateon, 8411 ; 8412.

Ch'ang-ngo, A. T‘éng-nga, a goddess in the moon. 441 (?).

lan, an ancient sort of doctor's robe or gown. 6722.

lan, to bar the road; stop the way. 6710); 6713. C7. 6715.

lung, liung, ling, leing, liong, K. yong, J. rid, ria, A. long, O.S. lom, R. 212, P. 989, the dragon, assoczated weth rain and floods. 7479. Lt ts represented as a winged, scaly quadruped, with sharp claws. It rises into the air at the spring equinox from the marshes and rivers into which tt descends at the autumn equinox. It ts a mythical embodiment of fog, mist and cloud.

8228.

ni, t'i, li, grease, fat.

li, lei, K.J. ri, inside; in. 6881. A fostposition .