Feb.4] SOCIETYOFBIBLICALARCH/KOLOGY. [1890.fa (pat) "hair,"Amoyhwat= gut, gu5, Shanghai/M= pit; and
other terms with initial/ (=p, b). The starting point of this
developmentis to be seen in the Accadian ^^ ba, muttatu", " hair,"
"whiskers"(5 R 37, Col. I, 46).*
Anotherinstanceof the equivalence of m and b is seen in the
Chinesepoh, "a great junk," as compared with mdng, and the
Accadianma, " ship." Theold sound of poh wasprobablybak or
bag = mag. Cp. p'a, dialecticpa, pb, " a bridge of boats " (= ba) ;
san pan, "a row boat"; pal,"a raft" = Cantonesepat,Amoypat,
* Another meaningof this AccadianBA, is miilu"', "half"= Chinese fan,
" half" ; see bar. If any one still doubts a connexion betweenthe Chinese and
Accadiantermsfor "hair," let him considerthe following facts. In Accadian
SAG, or SANG, is " the head," andin Chinese sangis " the forehead." In
Accadiansanga,Assyrianshangii,is a priest of some kind,and in Chinese sdnf
is a Buddhist priest(the Sanskrit samgha,sanga," assemblyof priests,"is clearly
no more thana coincidence of sound). The 59thChinesedeterminative///
san,"hair" (dialecticsham,san,si"),resemblesthe Accadian ^^,BA, " hair '* ;
a sign which also has the value sin. TheChinesesting(olderseng)means" short
hair,"andthe Accadian SIG,or sing, meansi&rtu,"hair." TheChineseska,
dialecticsha,sa, sb, old sound shak,is "long, fine hair;" cp. the Accadian SAG,
"head,"SU, "beard." I have beforecomparedZAG,"thehead,"withshau,
dialecticsin,sit, "the head." Further, G18,"hair," impliesa d-form, DI5;
whichexplainsthe Chinese It, "hair," dialectict'ei, t'i, di, and ti, t'i, "to
shave." Sha," feathers,"old sound shap( = SHAB), comesverynearto Accadian
shub(in MUNSUB). Thedialecticformssap,ch'iafi,se'h, show the hesitation
l>etwecnsh and s common to both Accadianand Chinese,and ring the changes on
the vowels in the way that Accadian teachesus to expect (ch'iapis Accadian Di'H,
"hair,"in DUB-SAG, do. ; se"h, AccadianSIG,"hair"). For SHUB, "hair,"we
havealsothe cognate shu,"horse-hairrug,"withthe dialectic shit,ju, si, of
which the second formrecalls(g)usor GlS ; and shu,dialecticshit,su, sit,
"garmentsof camelor yak'shair."
I think it likely that SAG (in dubsagga) alsomeans"hair"( = SIG) ; so that
the two halvesof the compound are,as usual, synonymous. So in the much
discusseduan-Surwe have ban= fan, " platter, basin,deepdish " (old sound
ban); p'a/t, "a tray"; p'&n (ben), "bowl, basin, cup"; + SHUR = shang
(oldershung)," a cup, goblet,bumper,feast, banquet"; shtlng (oldershing),
" a dish for holding food "; shwan (oldershon= shun?), " a cup or small bowl";
shu," a vessel on its base," etc. TIMMEN,again,appearsto mean " records,"
" documents," if we compare Hen,Cantonesetin, " written documents,records,"
and-mIii(old sound, men),Cantoneserniin,Amoybiin,Shanghaivihig," litera
ture ; a text, despatch,writing." In this case, MEN,"writing,"is an M-form
answeringto oft, "to write,"GIN,"a reed for writing," KIN,"a letter"; and
TIM (tiv)is an easy variantof IjOb, tub,"tablet": cp. tim-sar, " record-
writer,"a title of the god Nebo.
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