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also havemien(mit, met)fire gone out,to put out a light ; mien,
" dimvision,"" to sleep ; " mih (mit, mik)," hidden," " occult" ; mill,
"still,""silent," "rest";mih,"to cover," "a curtain"; min,"the
autumnalsky " ; min, " turbid," " foul " ; min," obscure" ; ming hai,
" the unknown anddarksea."
- With gig (mi?), "image," "likeness,"cp. miao (mio, mok),
"tolimn,sketch,copy";mao,"form,""like,""to draw a likeness";
mu (mu,mot, mok), "a mould," "a pattern," "the figure";mien,
"theface,visage,front."
- Gigga (giga),in the sense of pitu, "toopen," corresponds
withman(oldsound,miin),Cantonesemtin,"a gate," "an opening'';
m&ng(mong,ming),Swatowme and meng," budding," " sprouting,"
"togerminate,""incipient";mang,"to begin"; mao,"morning";
wei," to cut open " ; wei, " doors" ; and, as " to carve, engrave,"is
includedin the idea of opening (nnD>Exodusxxviii,36; 1 Kings
vii, 36), ming,"to carve." Alsowa, "a hole in the ground"; wah,
"to scoop out"; wan, "to carve"; wo, "a hole"; wu, "to
excavate";wan,"to cut asunder, divide,break,"etc.
- The Accadian mu, zikaru, " a male," alsome, is repeated in
theChinesemeu,mu, " the male of quadrupeds, of a few plants, and
birds," "stallion," "bull";meu,"a screw or bolt"; cp. also wang
(wung,yung=mum,i.e., mu-mu, or mun, or mug ; and gun or gug),
"a husband," the Cantoneseyung, Chifu wung; wei, "to love
women,""to hug" (old sounds, ngek= gig, mi, mft); wei,"pivots
on which a door turns" ; wei, " obscene," " to debauch " ; wu,
" obscene," " to defile " (ngo, mo) ; wu, " to caress, love."
- The Accadian mu, rabu, "great," "strong" {ernesal, for
gi5, as usual) ; ma6, mahhu, (a loan-word), radii, " great," mar
( = gal), ditto,answerto meu, " to be or make great" ; meu, mao,
" vigorous," " strong" ; meu, "tosurpass";meu, "luxuriant,"as a
forest; min, "strong," "robust"; mah (mit), Cantonese mat,
Shanghai mak, " brawny" ; mai (ma,mat), " to exert strength" ;
mat,"to surpass, exceed";manlih (lik = Accadian lig),"herculean
strength"; mang-mang, "great,""crowded,""tobecome great")
mang,"great,""eminent,""large"; mao,"eminent,""excelling in
force"; mo, mu, Chifu mil, "ample," "great" (old sounds, mak,
mat); mang,"corpulent," "large,""fat"; cp. also wan(man),"a
number,""myriad,""many";wang,"great";wei,"lofty,""grand";
wei,"vast,"like the ocean; wu,"strong,""warlike."
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