Nov.s] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY. [1889.ACCADIAN.
til," to kill," " to finish,"
" complete."tag," destroy," " ruin."tur,"sick,""ill."
tab," to add to " (vid. supr.).
duk,"a cup," "vessel."(Alsolut,id.).f||*determinativeof vessels.Chinese.
fiat, "tofinish," "to make to
cease," " exterminate," " des
troy."
tien,"to fall," "to die."
tien, "to fill up," "complete,"
" full," " ample."
to (old sound,tap), "to fall into
ruin."
tien,"to knock a thing to pieces."
ting,"to smash," "throwdown."
tien,"crazed,""deranged."
to (old sounds,ta, tap), "more,"
" to add."
t'ien(oldsounds,t'um,dim)," to
add,""increase."
feu (old sound, duk)," wooden
trencher," "sacrificial dish";
feu, "sacrificial vessel that
holdsthe meat."
liu (old sounds, lut, lok), "a
beggar'sclapdish."
lu (old sounds, lu, lut), "a
vessel" (fire-pan, censer, bra
zier,jar, jug).
D, Z, §.
It is well knownthat in Accadian thereis a dialectic change
fromg to D, as in gis, diS, "one,"gim and dam,"like";and,again,
betweend and z, as dug = zib (tsib?), "good." Further,we have
the change exemplifiedin zi (tsi ?) = shi = napiUum, " life." It is
natural,therefore,to expect to find similarrelationsbetweenthese
varioussoundsin the Chinese. So far, we have seenan Accadian
t or d preserved in a Chinese /, /', with an older /, or d. But this
is by no means invariable,though manymoreinstancesmight be
addedto those I have alreadygiven. An Accadian d (t) reappears
in modern Chinesesometimesas ch, sometimes as ts, sometimes
apparently as softy (French sound); which lastmay also repre
sentan Accadian z, although it has usually replaced a g (rid.
infra). As to the interchange of these letterswithinChineseitself,
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