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On the other hand,ts, ts', sometimes representAccadianz :
Accadian. Chinese
's)gu-za,"a throne." tso, "a raised seat,""a throne,"
" dais."
za, zi, " stone " (cp. dig). ts'o (old sounds, ts'a, ts'ap),
" broken stones,"" rubbish of
rocks"; tsii, "rocks thinly
coveredwithearth" ; tsi (tsik,
tsip)," rocksunderwater."
(na) zagin, a white stone of ts'o, "a stone of a brilliant white
somekind.* colour,like fine milky quartz";
" white," candidus (of teeth ;
a state robe).
zagin,ibbu,"brightwhite." tsioh,"a pure white"(oldsound,
tsiak); Canton, tseuk; Shang
hai, tsiek, ziek.
tsing, " brightness," " clear,"
"pure"; "semi-transparent
stones,quartz,fluorspar,"etc.
tsao," a stone likea gem " ; "a
whitishcolour"(tso,tsok).
zal, "to shine," udda-zalla, tsao, "the early morning" (cp.
" day-dawn." chao).
zi, "a spirit." king,"a wraith."
azag, "bright," "to glitter," tsHng, "pure," "clear"; tsang,
"silver." id., "to purify," "wash."
tsu (tsok), "pure, as unalloyed
silver."
azaz,"sickness." tsi, (tsik) "sickness."
uzu," flesh." ts'eu(dzu)" flesh."
(gis) gu-za, literally "splendid seat." Gu is "bright"; cp.
tjE HJ = dumu-gu. But za = " bright," in zal, zabar, azag,
izi, "fire," seemsto point to an older aza, and za, zu, "to see,"
"to know," maybe offshoots of the same root(cp. amaru, "to see,"
withnamaru,"toshine"). The Chinese pao tso — bal + za =
"royalseat,""thethrone."
* Stones likeopal,cornelian,agate,onyx,jasper, etc.,distinguishedfrom
similarquartzosemineralsby their veiningsandcolours, are called nao (old
soundno).
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