Feb.4] PROCEEDINGS. [1890.Shanghaipa (primitive ba) ; pang, a class-prefix of fleets ; pang, " a
doubleboat"(primitivebag);pang-jan,"a boatman"; p'ang,"a kind
of scow;" also/a(pat)"a raft,"///, "a float," and other termsin the
/ series. Compare,again,Accadian ba, pit A, " to open " (cp. bal,
" to split "), with ma-l,pitA= gal,pitfi; or the Chinese pai, poh, " a
hundred—the wholeof a class—many—all —everybody"= Cantonese
pak,Amoypek,withAccadianme, "many," "a hundred " (probably
deflected-fromma),and mag', "great,""much." TheChinesepei,
"theback, rear,"= pui,pbe,pe, as compared with Accadiana-ba,
arku," the back, rear,behind,"arkalu," the rear," " the back," " here
after,"" the future " (dialectic of a-ga), and »f- bar, arku,arkatu,
and this last, again,withJ^JE^f e-gir,arku,arkatu (e.g.,egir-mu,
" behindme " ; egir ma, arkat elippi," the hinder partof the ship " ;)
suppliesanotherinterestingexample of the relation betweeninitial
g and b, which is parallel to that betweeng and m. Thee of egir
is dropped in Chinese, as is the e of edin, " field," in becoming
Men — Cantonese fin,AmoyHan,Shanghaidi", and the 1 or e of >-<,
idim,or edim, Samti, "heaven," in becoming t'ien, the Cantonese
Pin, "heaven." In fW&j, gir, mer,iltdnu,"thenorth,"ascompared
with Chinese/tf/z,pei, "the north,"of which the sign representstwo
men standing back to back, we have again an instance of the
equivalenceg = m = b. Pei, " back," is represented by a character
composedof the signs for fleshand north, to indicate thatone ought
to face the south.
Thefluctuationbetween/ and k (primitive d, g) for the final
soundis parallel to the Accadian zid = zig, bad = bag. So in
nu-gig= mu-gib, sag = sab, we have finalg alternating with final
B; just as k and/ (primitiveg, b) alternate as final soundsin so
manyancientand dialectic formsof Chinese.
I will nowgivea table of terms in which bothAccadianand
ChinesepresentinitialN.
Accadian. Chinese,
na, nu, utulu, rab&su,salalu,"to na read no, "to rest," "peace-
lie down," " to rest ; " nad, ful " ; ni, " to recline, as a sick
ditto; "abed." man."
na, ni, pronominal suffixes of na, nai, "that,"or "those," ni
third person (both singular (Cantonese),"this."
and plural), ne, annH, "this."
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