Feb.4] PROCEEDINGS. [1890.mind the fact thata Chinese p ox b may be a double of m. In
Accadianalsothereare B-forms as well as M-forms corresponding
to those withinitial G; both balandgalmean "tobe strong"
(abdru), andwe find aba =. aga, la-ear= la-gar, tag = dib, and
so on. Pieh(= bit), Cantonese///," do not! ", is a close relation
of puh, and to be accounted for in the same way. Thisviewis
borne out by the fact that the Mandarin mo or me, which in
Cantoneseis pronounced mitt,in Chifu mu, and at Shanghai meh,
is but in Amoy. Similarly, ivu, " without," the Cantonesemb,
Shanghai vu, is in Amoy bu (a very interestingexamplefor ths
exchangeof the labials) ; and mieh,old sound mit,the Cantonese
mit, Fuhchau miek,Shanghaimih,is the Amoy biat. On the other
hand, the Mandarin mo, mu, " do not "! old sound male, is in
Cantonesemok,in Amoy moh,and at Shanghai mbk.
A very remarkableinstanceof the equivalence of M and b in both
languagesis the following. We saw (DecemberProceedings, 1889
p. 80) that in Accadian J^<y(g)u§or giS was defined by the Assyrian
muttatu, "hair," "whiskers" (a term which is also usedfor the
explanation of ^fftf ki§i,or ki§ " hair ") ; and we compared these
Accadian termsgi-S,ki-S,withthe Chinese i, ji, e, "the whiskers,"
" hairy," jan,"the whiskers," "thebeard" (p. 55). WithkiS cp.
also chi, dialectic ki, "tufts of hair, a girl's coiffure";chi, kei, k'e, ki,
"to do up the hair"; chi, kei, ke, kih, "a Chinese woman's tuft";
chi, "a hair fishingnet"; chi, " a camel's hairrug." We also saw that
in mao, dialecticmb, mo (= ma), the general termfor "hair," "fur,"
"wool,""feathers,""down,"and in mei, "eyebrows,"whichin Can
tonese,Amoy,and Shanghai,is pronounced mi, bi, me, respectively,
the Chinese possessescorrespondingM-forms. Thecompoundterm
mux-Sub,Sartu","hair,"Saratzumri,"hairof the body," seemsto
contain an Accadian equivalent in mun. But we also find in
Chinesethe seriespa (pat), "hairon the thigh," "theshorthairon
the flesh "; p'dng, "dishevelled hair "=p'ung, hong,pung, in the
threedialects;p'dng= dialectic pang,p'eng,pang, "loose hair,"
etc ; p'ei in p'd sai, " a bushy beard" (sai = dialectic sot, su si ; cp.
sii = dialectic si, su, sii, " the beard," " whiskers of animals " ;
Accadiansu, " beard " ; sig, or sing, " hair ") ; p'i, " furs " ; piao (the
190thradical,or as it would be called in Accadian "determinative,"
of characters relatingto human hair)," locks hangingdown; bushy
hair " ; = Cantonese piu, Shanghaipio ; p'ieh (pit) a classifier of
moustaches; pun, "a cue"; pin, "tresses," "curls," "whiskers,"
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