Nov.5] PROCEEDINGS. [1889.Accadian di (din), "judgment," may further be compared with
cfran(oldsound,din)," to arrange," " set in regular order." Dagal
(dialecticdamal)," broad," " wide,"" to extend," etc.,is a compound
of da, "broad," andgal(mal),pitu," to open." We see da in cha
(oldsounds,ta, da), "to open out,""stretchopen";cha,"to widen
out,"expand,"andother terms. Withgal cp. yao, " extensive," as
a plain ; yao, " boundless," like the ocean.
So far Accadian d = Chinese ch. Let us now lookat z. The
syllabarygives six occurences of -fl^, zid, zi, with the definitions
imnu, "right hand," "right," "straight"; Mnu, "right,""fixed,"
"lawful," "just,"etc.; zigga, tebti, "to come on," "approach,"
"attack";nasahu, "topluck up,""rendaway,""depart"(P!D2)',
napistu, "life," and niSSu, "spirit." The term zi, "life," was
pronouncedshi in the other dialect of the Accadian ; and this
being the fact,whatcouldbe more strikingthan that shi means
"life"in Chinese? Nothing,exceptperhapsthe fact thatanother
shi is " to go to," " approach " ; another is " to depart " ; another
means "direct," "straight"; another "right," "proper." Yet
another shi means "to swear," "adjure,"which recalls the well-
knownformulaof the magical tablets, zi anna ge-pad-e§,zi kia
ge-pad-es. Wealso havezi, Saqii, "leader,"andzi, nah'i, "to lift
up." Thesetermshavetheirfellowsin shi, "a leader," "a general,"
shi, "an officer,"and shi, "to set up" (polesor trees, a flagstaff, etc.),
"erect,""lofty." In the same placewe have tig,withthe definition
ilu Sa naphari, "God of the universe," cp. Chinese //', "a god," and
perhapsShang-ti,"theSupremeruler." ThisChinese shi had the
old sounds shai,shi, zhi (Accadian zi), shik, shit,zhit (cp. Accadian
zit, zid), and zhik (cp. Accadianzigga). In the dialects ch'iis
heardas well as shi. But,further,under the heading shi,the first
two Chinese termsare shi, "a corpse," and shi, "a carcase." Does
anything correspond in the Accadian? It would seem so, for we
have su-zi= ialummalum, "body," "corpse"(su means "body,"
"skin,"and"flesh"). Maynot dumuzi, "Tammuz,"be "the slain
or dead son,"ratherthan "sonof life"? TheChinesesz\ or as
Professor Douglaswritesit, ssu, " to die," " death" (old sounds,si,
sei, sai, zi, etc.), is similar. Thecontrarymeaningsof shi, "life,"
and"a corpse," mayremindus that in ancient Egyptthe dead were
parexcellence"theliving." (Cp.alsoshin,old sounds, shim,shin,
zhim," the trunk," " body" ; short, " the powers above,"" the gods,"
"a spirit," "thehumanspirit,""ancestralspirits.") In Accadian we
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