Siov.s] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY. [1889.relatedto cat, "towalk.' Thereb also or. ~ro rcsh." '-flow,"
"run," "hasten."5 and gck, "ocean."'which arswer Terrwell to
fi ; for ( ) Chinese has lost thefetterr. and 1 2 1 Accadian itself
often omits it as a final consonant; cp. ga = cut, ~ to make" :
tu = tvr, "to enter"; ga = gck. "to Int.'
TheChinese roots YC, YIH, appearto be ultimately one.
Thusit is that we find yf, to poor oct.'and jrf , " damp."' " wet,"
and yi', "very large,""great,""abundant."andrf,"happy,''-jovial,"
" to like," " rejoice in,"arrangedunderthe latter, showingthatit is
in many respectssynonymous with the former. Theold sounds
yik,yit, yip, ngik,pointto the same fact,and the Accadian g'e,
"abundance,"g'al, "toflow,""maybe as well explainedby these
termsas by the derivatives of YC. Andnot only so : under the
heading K//ifwefindalsoyf, "the throat,' "organsof eating and
speaking,"in Cantonese "tocall after," "scold."yf, "to explain,"
" interpret betweenparties," plainlyansweringto the Accadian gu
(kiiddu), "theneck,"gu, "tospeak"and "interpret'' (ragamu,
cp. targumannu, "interpreter,""dragoman"). Then,too,we have
yi\ " black," yi\ " mists and vapours,"answering to Accadian ge,
" night,"gig," darkness," " shadow," and yV, " plague," " epidemic
sickness,"yi\ "disquieted," "sorrowful,"answeringto the Accadian
gig,"sick,""sickness." Theideasof dark(tristis,ater,"Y"p,etc.),
sick,sorrowful,are naturally expressed by similar sounds. Now,as
in Accadian we meetwithsynonymousformslike gi and gin,ti and
tin,so in Chinese we find the root YIN(oldsoundsyin, yim, ngin)
withvariousmeaningsakinto those of YU and YIH. Thuswe
haveyin, "a shadow," "dark," "sombre,"i.e., gin, cp. Accadian
ci, gig ;_?/«, "mournful," "sorry,"cp. Accadian gig ; yin, "full,"
"flourishing,""abundant,""many,"
waters,""to soak," "todrench," "extraordinary,""excessive,"and
yin,"a longand drenching rain,"cp. Accadian g'aland g'e. Further,
we have yin,"news,""a reply," "an intimationor order," corres
pondingto the Accadian gin (gen),iaparu, "to send," taru, "to
return,"gi, gigi, " to return," apalu, " to answer," kin (gin), Sipru,
"a message," "order," "commission." The Accadian gam, "to
bend," "bow"(beugen,biegen), maybe compared with gin,"to
bow, bend, turn, return," which is written withthe ideogram of
reedor bulrush, andthe Chinese 'yin,"to draw a bow," "tolead
on,"which is homophonous with yin (Ace. gin), " to journey,"
maybe compared withboth. TheAccadianhas several wordswith
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