Dec. 3] PROCEEDINGS. [1889.
"to glance at," recall igi, "the eye,"dial.ide,andg'un,"to lift up
the eyes," and di, "to judge,"i.e.,discern betweencauses. The
Accadiansignfor " eye," 4^-,has the syllabic value81, which, as an
Accadianword, means "life" (= zi). Now,as ^f«- also means
" to see " (amaru, naplusu), and living and seeing are associated
ideas, it is probable that §1 was alsothe pronunciation of the
ideogramin the sense of " to see" (cp. za, zu, "to know"). The
MandarinandCantonesei, "black and shining," maybe referred to
gi, gig, "black." Mandarin/, "fit and right,"is GIN, kenu. I, ni,
"coloured clouds,"i.e., "the rainbow";"coloured,""variegated";
answersto ga, sarapu, "todye"; g'a,g'e, sirpetu. I, "long," may
be compared withgid, "long"; i, "according to," "as," "like,"
with gim, "like"; ', "dirt," with gi, "earth"; /', "arrack," "to
drink,"withga-5,ge-S,"strongdrink,"and (g)ima, "thirst";i, "to
move,""transmit,"" despatch," with gin,gi, "to go," "tosend";
1, "great," withgi-s, ga-l, "great"; i, "to give,"with ga-r, "to
give"; gun, "tribute"; mu, "togive"; ', "to induce," "cause,"
withga and ma, "to make," "produce";garand gal, do.;/, "joy
ful,"" satisfied," withga, paSahu, Sabu; i, " sweets," " to feed," with
KU, matqu, "sweetness"; ku, "toeat"; i, "to kill," "destroy";
"to push out,as a shoot comesup";"distant,""remote,"withgi,
iabdiu,"to kill";ga-z,"tokill";gu-l, "todestroy"; I, asii, "to
shoot forth"; gid, "distant"; /', "to retire," withgi, taru ; "to
raise,"with I, nadu, "toexalt,"and ga, naSii, "toraise." I, "the
glancing of the eye" recalls igi;i, "right," "equity," gin, kenu
kettu; i, "thought," "inclination,""will,""motive,"gin,bibillibbi;
and so also i, ni, " to consider," " intend." 7, in the three dialects
f, gi, ni, "right," "friendly"; i, "easy," "at ease," "pleased";
»', "to change"; i, "to arrange"; , "different," "foreign," "to
oppose";/, "to prostrate,""overthrow";', "toil," "affliction"(gi,
gig, mursu); i, "loquacious" (cu,"tospeak);/', "to talk in one's
sleep"= ngei, gi, ni, in the three dialects;/', "to govern," "reduce
to order"; /', dial, ngei,ge, ni, "to reacha place," "goto" (ga, gi,
dahft); and others of the characters pronouncedi in Mandarin, will
all be found to correspond to the Accadian termswithinitialG with
which we started (p. 53). The Accadian I, kamu, "to bind,"
"lead captive,"is like Chinese *", "to drag away," "lead a tied
animal";andI -I, par&ku, answersto i, "to seclude," "keepclose,"
i, "to separate," "divide." In fact, almost every term in this
Chinese seriesof homophones is clearly reducibleto an Accadian
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