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As we have seen, lugud, "clear blood,"as opposed to adama,
"darkblood,gore,"alsocontains thisrootlag',"bright,clear";a
fact indicated by the character itself, -^f. The lawof vowel-
harmony,or assimilation, whichgovernsAccadiancompoundterras,
has caused the change fromlag' to lug1, beforegud," blood." The
intermediate sound lig',whichbelongsto both ^\ and tffy<,made
the transition easy. Thelattersign actuallyhas the sound lug'
(in the sense of "servant"); and the former maywell havehad
it also.
Nowfor lag' (=lag=lang)," bright " and " to cleanse " (i.e., "to
makebright"), we have in Chinese the exact equivalentlang," clear,
as moonlight, bright, lustre,clearness." Thetermis compounded
withts'ittg,Amoych'eng(zig,dig),"pure,clear,limpid,""to purify,"
in the expression ts'ing-lang,"limpid, pure, transparent,"of water.
And as the moon-goddess is called lag'-lag'in Accadian, so in
Chinese we have the phrase yueh lang, " bright moonlight, moon
shine." To complete the parallel, thissame Chinesecharacterhas
in Cantonese the meanings " to rinse the mouth," "to rinse in water,
in order to cleanse, as a plate " = lag', misii,lag'lag',ubbubu,"\a
wash." Withthe older lung,we may compare the second half of
the Accadian compounds su-lug and sus-lug, "to be bright"
(namAru). su, sus, answerto si/, " limpid, pure,"such, Cantonese
silt, " snow, to whiten, to wash clean, white." Chinesesupplies,
besides,lang," fire," " the bright blazeof a fire," and lang," bright,
clear." Closecognatesare loh, older lak, Cantonese lok, "to brand,
red-hot";Ian,dialecticlam,lam,lc", "fire burningfuriously";Ian,
"thelustreof burnished metal,especiallyof gold" (usedalsoin the
compoundIs'ing-lan,"brilliant");Ian,"thelustreof a gem"; Ian,
dialecticIan,Ian, le", "bright, splendid,brilliant"(cp. also Accadian
di, " to shine," ok, " fire ").
The next term in Dr. Haupt's list is ^§J, lag', reduplicated
lag'lag'," to carry or be carried away,"as booty. Thisideogram
is variously renderedalaku," to go, to march " (cp. >£\, dun,tum,
"to go"); Saldlu, "to carry off,"as booty; (lag'lag'), itaslulu,
naSallulu," to be carried captive,"or simply italluku," to go to and
fro." Theroot-ideais "to go,"and causatively"tomaketo go,"
" lead," " lead away," especiallyby force. Thetermreappearsin
the Mandarin lung,Amoylong(— lang), "walking";lung,Amoylong,
"to drag"; lung-liieh, "to plunder," as a highwayman: cp. lun,
olderIon (=lan), the Fuhchau lung,Shanghailang,"to walk with
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