Chinese and Sumerian

SUMERIAN AB, ABBA, father; elder (sheikh) ;

prince, ruler (ad ; stu ; nastku). Used an addressing gods. 3816; 3820f. (Written phonetically with the char. for AB, house; as ¢f the father were ‘The House’.) Vid. BAB, PAP, father ; AD, zd. (written house+ ward).

AB, dwelling ; bird’s nest (apzu). 3815. (The pictogram possibly suggests an underground dwelling, lke those described by Xenoph. Anab. Vid. D. 345.)

AB, the sea (¢émtum). S*. 95. 3822. Written with last char. phonetically. Also A-AB, gs. water-house. Cf. the name of Aé, the God of the Deep, written A+E, E+A, house+water. The camel (tbilu = Arab. ’2bl,’16il) was styled (ANSHU) A-ABA, ‘(Dez.) Waterhouse’, 27 apparent allusion to its hump as a store of water. C.T. xiv. 11.

AB, ABBA, verdure; vegetation ; first growth of plants, or the like; of MULU-ABBA, a gardener, “¢, man of plants, planter, grower (¢rr75z) ; ITI-ABBA, ‘Month of Vegetation’, or ITI-ABBA-UDDU, ‘Month of Vegetation Coming up’, ‘Month of Springing Growth’, z.e. Tebeth (72d# tum); DINGIR ABBA, ‘God of Vegetation’ (or ‘ First Growth’) =2/u Nabi ga-es-se ab-bu-ti, ‘Nebo the Giver of Vegetation’; AB-DU-SAR (vegetation-make-growth =élit argt), the sprouting of green things or vegetation. (17Y Gen. xli. 5.) 3835. Ved. also3823: 3819; 3826; 3832.

AB-SIM, AB-SIN, growth, sprouts, shoots; esp. of grain (adésénu ; ser), green or growing corn.

A-BUL, BUL, gate, whence Assyr. abullu( Aram. NYDN), city-gate. (From BUN? ¢. KAN, gate) ABULMAG, high gate (adulmakhu): vid. MAG, high ; noble, &c.

AB-ZU, the Deep, the Ocean (aps), as a male dety. 151.

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CHINESE

ya, ye, i, K. J. ya, A. gia, ja, father ; used as a term of respect in addressing gods, princes, nobles, officers, &c. (WW.). 12977. O.S.yap, ap (dap=gap): wid. BP. 2385 372.

k‘o, fo, wo, u, k‘ou, J. kwa, KA. k‘wa, hole; burrow; nest. 6093. O.S. gop: P. 492. (Cf also 520: dop.)

hai, ha, J. kai, the sea. 3767. O.S. ka, ga-p (?); of tsyp, kiap, A. hiep, tiep, water penetrating, moist, 1448; yép, hih, noise of flowing water, 4135; hap, hiah, kiap, a, ép, to soak, as water into the ground (WW.), 4233; yép, yih, ip, damp, moist, soaked; to steep

(WW.), 5484.

yp, yap, yeh, leaves of plants and trees. P. 542 dep (=gep). 12997.

ya, nga, Am. ga, bud, sprout, young shoot; to bud (WW.). 12804. (ap. me, 7d.) O.S. ga-p (da-p); vad. PP. FOG esl le

yoti, yo, Zul, jwei, O. S. nip, nap (P. 121), small plants budding. 5720.

ya-sun, a sprout, a shoot. 12804. Composed of ya, nga, ut supr., and sun, sung, shing, J.shun, young shoots of bamboo and other plants, which are eaten. 10438.

mén, mun, J. mon, doorway; gate. 7751. (Labialized counterpart of han, J. kan, a village-gate. 3792.)

Hai-zo, the God of the Sea. 3767. Echo of the anctent name ; ke V‘ai-po, planet Venus = Sumertan DIL-BAD; Fu-hi