Mar.4] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCH/EOLOGY. [189atakein their cognates, we shall strengthenour argument by the
additionalevidencewhichtheyafford,andperhaps accountfor the
few Accadian homophoneswhichwe have not succeeded in identi
fyingunderkiu,iciu.
For lal, the sixth termin Dr. Haupt's list, see Proceed., Nov.,
1889,p. 12. Theseventhtermis lid, "a bull or steer," or rather
perhaps" a wild ox." Thesign,4^Z, has also the value rim,from
whichwhich the Semitic r'tmu, re'crrt,wereprobablyderived. In
Chinesewe find //, "the Tibetanyakor grunting-ox." Butother
domesticanimalsbearsimilarnames in Accadian. Thuswe find
JEJJ,lu, read udu,in the sense of immeru andkirru," lamb " ; JEJJ
-£§=yf, LU-LI, readgukkal, "lamb" or "sheep" (gug-f kal);
lu-gug,lu-zig,LU-NiM,kirru; and JEJJ{J",lu-lim,lu/imu,which
has been variouslyrendered" he-goat," " ram," and " bell-wether."
With tu as the class-prefix of small cattle(serin),we may compare
the Chinese lao, dialectic, lb, lb, lo, " domestic animals,"which,with
the prefixes la, " great," and shao, " small," denotesoxenandsheep
respectively. Lu, "a deer," mayalso be related. As to lim, in
Chinesea ram or deer " with threecurlsin its horns " is called sari-
tsa-chien, "three-curl-horn." Chien is the modern reading of lien
= lim. At Canton the character is pronounced lin, at Shanghai
It". LULIMis thus " sheep+ horn."
Lu-nimmaybe compared withyuen,dialectictin, gwan, nii",a
large-homed speciesof sheep, foundwestof China, saidto be as
largeas an ass (NIM = Saqti, "high"), lu-zigcontainsa s-form
correspondingto the d of udu, as dug to zib. Chu, a lamb five
monthsold,is dzo at Shanghai, but /'« (=du) in Amoy. Chinese
hasotherz-forms, as the Shanghai /s'e"( = zm), " sheep crowding
together,"the Mandarin Man(dan). As to lu-gug, I have already
comparedyang,Cantoneseycung,Amoyyong,old sound yung(=yug,
gug),withgug in gukkal. Yang,the 1 23rd radical,means" a sheep
or goat," and" animals of this family, as the antelope or gazelle."
It is an important fact, that evenin cases wherewe find an
Accadianif corresponding to a Chinese, e.g., nim,elu = nieh (nip,
nib),"toascend,"the Amoy dialect often presents/ instead of n ;
as, in this instance, AmoyHap (lib)= Mandarin-nieh(NiB)=Fuhchau
nick(nig). TheAccadian scriptreflects thisvariation of initial
sounds. The characterJ^: ni, " oil," is pronounced U, in the
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