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SUMERIAN

DAR, DAR-DAR, to break in pieces, smash up; to pound; to destroy (huppa, lth, pégu; Sutturu). Br.

3496, &e. -

DAR, a fowl, chicken, pullet, hen (¢avrz). The cock ts DAR-LUGAL, the Fowl King (tarlugallu = Aram. xdv0on, tarnegala, cock. Vid. LUGAL, king).

DARA, various species of deer, chamois, &e., stag, hind (turadhu ; DARAMASH, ayalu ; DARA-MASH-DU, nayalu). 2R.6. Perhaps from DARAG (of. Assyr. loan turdgu ; Syrvac taro).

DAR, DARA, to be or become dark (da'ému); dark,—of the sky, or woollen stuffs (da’amu). Br. 10798 f.

DIRI, DIR, dark (adrw) ; to be darkened (adéru). Br. 3719; 3723. Also read DIG (or SIG ?), and perhaps DI-RIG; (of. GIG, black); SA (from SAG ?), dark-coloured; dun (sémz); cf. SIG, SI, zd. [Written SIG, fud/+ A, water = the watery or cloudy sky.]

DE (DI), DIM, irrigation (s2gé¢wm) ; to water, of fields (sag@ sa eg); to pour out (¢adéku). Br. 6731 ff; S’.g1 var. to pour a libation (wig@ sa sikar2). Be 6727,

DEL (DELLU), a rudder, tiller (a7)? 3702. (Wretten like the next: ship+ reptile ?)

DIM-GUL, Br. 3703, and DIM-GAL GUL), Br. 2759, some part of a ship th 2401; tarkullu), phps. the great rope (DIM, riksu, timmu, markasu) or ‘stay’ supporting the mast, the ‘mainstay’. Vid. GAL, GUL, great.

DIM zz LU+DIMMA, a sailor or

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tao, tau, to, O..S. tot, to pound, vey “beat to pieces. 10791. (But P. 775 tak, Zd.) (Cf P. 335 tit, break off.)

ts'au, Am. ch‘iu, tsiu, a pullet; a chicken (WW.). 2306. O..S. tsot, dot. (Cf P. 560: £d.ts‘ok.) Fapanese tori, bird ; fowl = DAR.

luk, 16k, lu, loh, K. nok, A. louk, a stag;

a deer. 7434. R.198. J. rok zz rokkaku = luk-kak, lu-ko, hartshorn. O. S. lok, tok (zz P. 718). P. 722.

tik, ték, ti, dih, a stag or elk. 10930. (Phps. dissimilated fr. tit = dir, dar.)

tai, toi, ti, de, cloudy. to561. O.S. chive, Git (IDR, IDNA IR, m7 le, 440.

tai, toi, dé, t'e, J. de, tai, to blacken the

eyebrows; dark-coloured; sombre. , 10553: a t'ai, té, Am. tai, very black. 10576.

OvSatat,

tzti, Am. tsu, O. S. ti-k (= DIG or SIG), A.ti, black. 12353. P. 619.

t'ai, t'oi, dé, t'e, J. tai, dai, soot. OS, dat (=DAR): VP. 186,

yik, yi, black. 13208. tik (P. 25) and ik.

ch'ik, ch’ek, ch‘ak, ts‘i, J. seki, shaku, red, —of fire, foxes, copper, gold, and brown sugar ! 1967. Ancient colour-terms are ill-defined. Vid. GUN, grey, yellow; SIG, green, blue; SA, brown.

chiin, tsim, K.ch‘im, A.tém, to flood, e.g. the rice-fields. 2090.

chén, chim, ching, K.ch'im, to pour out. 624.

tien, tin, tieng, die, diefi, to pour a libation. 11205.

*t'ai, té, rudder (Canton and Fuchait). 10599. O.S. tit, tat, P. 755. (Wretten ship +snake = 10554.)

*shing, A.t’éng, O, S. ding (dim), a cable (P. 922); cord; rope. 9886. (Aén to lam, lan, lang, la, rope, cable, hawser; ta-lan, a ‘great rope’, a hawser. 6739.)

10586.

ting, t'eng, K.chéng, A. dinh, a boat.