Chinese and Sumerian, page 69

A-ZALAG,

SUMERIAN 4I A-ZAG, bright, clear, pure, white (e2/x ; ebbu; pict). 9890. Cf SHAG, bright, white (C. Z. xii. 6); and ZAG, a value of the fire-symbol; SIG, bright.

A-ZAG, illness, disease, sickness, malady; as a‘ plague’ or Divine stroke (cf. Isa. lili. 4; Lev. xili. 2) wretten (A)ZAG + AN, perhaps for ZAG+AN, strength (emtigu) or hand (cd) + god: Br. 6473; 6476: more usually A+ZAG, hand+ smite, Br. 6591 (ID+SIG). (Assyr.

asakku, loan-word.)

A-ZU (6éri), seer, soothsayer, wizard: doctor (cf. ‘medicine-man’). Zz# one who knows (ZU, #d#). (Also read U-ZU. Assyr. Gst, physician, and Aram. SDS, to heal, are derivv. of A-ZU.) Vid. ZU, to know.

A-ZUtsalsoa scribe (dupsarru). 11377ff. one who brightens or whitens, scz/, clothes; a fuller or other kind of cleaner (aslaku). 6431. Vid.

ZA-LAG. Written man + clothes + brighten). BA, mother, progenitress, she who

‘creates’ or fashions (6dntwm = béni-

tum). Br. 9977; of. 8966.

BA (2), a kind of earthen vessel (sé@twm). Br. 9989. (From BA-R? cf. 1827.)

BA (also read BI), to halve, divide, distribute, give (zézu ; gdsu). Br. 104; 107 ; open, zz KA-BA, open-mouthed (pit-p~t), Br. 110=KA-BADDU, 2d, 606; KA-BARRA, an open mouth (pi prti), 609; to break off a piece, lessen, diminish (zaséru), 108; BA-BA, read BI-BI, a deduction or subtraction from an amount (xwsurrd), 116 (ved. Muss-Arnolt, p. 741).

(The character ts a sight modification 1601 G

CHINESE

tsdk, Am. chiok, tsioh, O..S. tsiak, pure white; pure (WW.). 2222. so, su, $0, O..S. sok (P. 634), white. JZg.

chiag-an. 10348.

sik, hsi, clear; bright; white. 4043. Am. sék.

nik, J. daku, sickness, disease. R. 104.

8225.

tsi, chi, ts‘e, O. S. dzik (P. 934), sick, diseased. 818.

tsat, chi, ts‘it, chik, zai, dzih, sickness, disease, 918. (t fromk? Cf. P. 163a; 616.) tsat-ping, ailments; vzd. PIG, SIG, to be weak, ill.

sék, set, seik, seh, sé, ague, cold fever.

O. S. shak (P. 249). 9614.

zii, yii, 1, ji (zi), Zu, lu, J. niu, dju, scholar; the learned; 2g. Zu-i, a learned physician. 5675.

zui, you, yti, zei, Zwei, lui, acute, wise ; insight. 5728. P. 956.

pau, boa, pao, A. bau, the womb. 8701. (P. 168 po-k.) V2d. 8699 ; 8709.

pou, pao, bu, A. bau, to sit, brood, incubate. 8710.

po, boa, bu, bou, K. p‘a, J.A. ba, an old woman, a mother (WW.). 9412. ba-t.

po, pat, pwat, bah, A. bat, a wife (ez the North). 9384.

po, put, pwat, a dish, basin, platter. 9392. po, put, pat, bd, K. pal, A. bat, earthenware basin. 9354.

pa, pat, bo, K. pal, A. bat, eight; to divide; opening out or ‘flaring’ (WW.). 8504. (pat = subdivision and separation: Ed. R. 12.)

piu, piao, piau, O..S. po(t), P. 418, to divide, distribute (alms, plunder, &c.). QI15.

pi, pei, bi, O..S. pit, P. 498, to give, to distribute amongst (WW.). 8981. fu, Am. hu, A. fo, O..S. pot (= bat), P. 178, to give to. 3666.