Feb.4] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY. [1890."in this way," "so."nam,annti,"this."Accadtan. Chinese.
ni as an adverbial termination nang(neng),an adverbial termi-
(—"ly" = like = gin, dim, nation; h'ien-h'ien-nang, "dan-
" like as "). gerously" (Shanghai).
N-'x\M,anni1,hidm,umma,"this," na, a colloquial finalparticleused
in replies; "so,""certainly."
ni, an affirmative particle.
»a«(nam),"now,""at this time";
nan mo, " then " (Shanghai).
ana,mind," who, which"? na, "which"? " where"? "how"?
na-me,aiu, "who?which"? ma, me (mi), mie, Cantonese mat,
minil,"who,which,"manman, "who? what? how"? before
mala," whoever," "whatever," a negative, "why"? "where-
"all that"; "anywhatever"; fore"?
quicunque,quoties,quilibet. mei," each, every,any."
nin,ni, y dialectic M>i\,mimma, nai, "how"? "in what wav"?
" whoever, whatever." nai ho? " what next"? (ho —
who? which? what? how ?)
nan (nam), as an interrogative
particle,in the phrase nan tao.
ni, an interrogative particle.
ngan, Mandarin an, " how "?
"why"?
ning, "how"?"why"?(<-/. nin,
nig values of V)-
(ng)o,dialectic0, b, eh, "who"?
"what"?
nam-, nag-, as prefixes of abstract nouns, e.g., nam-mem,
Sarriitu, "royalty";nam-tagannu,arnu, "sin,"Scgti, "error";is
also probablyof pronominal (demonstrative)origin; and so related
to nam, " this," and nam, nin, nig, " who," " which" ; cp. the
historyof the Greek S«, and, further,the abstract to lUaiov, "what
is just," "justice." nam-tagis to afiafnwXdv (cp. with tag the
Chinese t'eh, older t'ek, "error," "toerr"; dialectic fik, fik,
idk). Wemightalso comparethe Chinese nang(neng),"power,
ability, skill " ; " duty, function" ; as though nag-tagga meant
"sin-craft,"and nam-lugal, "king-craft."
nin-nam,minima,manman.nin-name, minimabaSfl, "what
everexists."216