Nov.5] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY. [1889.havealsoshum,tabahu,"to slaughter"; cp. Chinese shu,"to kill"
(oldsounds,sho,zho,shiu),and shati, "tocut off"; cp. Chinese
shah, " to slay" (old sounds, shat,shap). TheAccadian shu=
kiSsatu, "multitude"= Chinese shu, "a multitude," "all," "the
whole,""a great number"(shud?) Underthe same headwe have
shu, "open," "wide apart"; "distant in space or time," etc. =
Accadianshud, "distant"; shu, "tooverturn" = Accadian, shu,
"tothrowto the ground" {cp. shu, "to slaughter,""exterminate);
shu, "topourout " = Accadian shub, "to pourout,""sprinkle"
(= Accadian shib); shu," millet" = Accadian she,"grain"; shu,
"bright," "the light of the rising sun," "clear"= sHA, shaga,
" pure," " purified" ; and shu, " benevolent," " benignant" = sha,
shaga,"favour,""grace."
TheAccadianshur(dialecticshir,sher),"to cry aloud," "an
outcry,"recallsshang(old sound, shing,i.e., shig?), "a sound," "a
cry,""a wail."
Shit,"a number," "to count" = sho, "to count"(givenunder
sheh, old sounds, shet,zhet, ship,and shak), usedof divination
by straws.
Sheg," to rain," " rain " ; cp. shah (old sound,shap)," a slight
shower,""a passing rain";sha,sa (old sound,shak),"tosprinkle,"
"wet" with rain, "rain"; shan, "a slight rain"; shao (shok),
"water driven by the wind," "to sprinkle." Shib, shub, "to
sprinkle,"are clearly relatedwords.
Sheu(old sounds,shu, shut, zhu,andshuk),gives us shot, "to
receive,"and sheu, "thearm,""thehand";cp. Accadian shu,"the
hand,""might";also sheu, "the head,""a chief, a leader"; cp.
si-lig,"leader"(lih, old sound, lik, Cantonese lik, means "strength";
cp. Accadian lig,"strong"). With sheu,"thehead,"cp. also zag,
rMu," head." Shan," mountain," " height" (old sound,shan),seems
to answer to g'ar-sag, " mountain" ; cp. Amoy, san,Fuhchau,sang,
Chifu,san. Shang," top," " above," " heaven" (old sound, zhung),
may be compared with zag, sag, "head";cp. the Swatow, siang,
Amoy,siong. Shift,"a stone," "hard" (aid sound,ship,shek,etc.),
Recallsshegandsheb, "brick,"whichsometimeshas"stone"as
a determinative beforeit, and za, "stone," and dig (abnu), "a stone."
Oneof the commonest of Accadian rootsis zu, "to know,""know
ledge,"" wisdom,"of which an older formis za. Zu is explained by
idu and lamadu, "to see" (mentally),"to know" (in pael, uddtf,"to
let see," " show"), and " to learn." It corresponds to shi, " to
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