Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology

Mar.4] PROCEEDINGS. [1890.

Accadian £^ kur. Chinese ku(r).

3. kur, " to help," " defend," kiu, " to assist, save, protect,
   ' save" (nasaru). defend."


4. kur, "all together," "as a kiu, "toassemble,"kiu,"to col-
   total," " in sum " (naph.
   arii, adv. from paharu,
   " to assemble ").

lect together, many, to the

end " ; kiu, " after all, finally,

at last."

5. kur, "another,"" a second," k'iu,"topair, to match, to join
   "[different," Lat., alter twoin marriage, a union, part-
   (ianumma); cp. No. 1. ner."


6. kur, "torepeat, tell,""in
   form" (Sunttu).


7. kur, "male"(zikarum).

kiu,"to inform, to announce."

k'iu, menibrumvirile; kiu, " the

maleof the elk."

To these maybe added :

Accadiankur. Chineseku(r).

8. V kur, "land,country,earth" k'iu, "a hillock; a hill with a
   (matum,irsitum)


9. KUR, " hill " {Sadu]

level top for worship, a high

place" ; the term is also a

classifierof parcels of land ;

" a plot or lot " of land ; san

k'iu, " the three hills,"where

the fairies dwellin the eastern

seas.

10. kur, "dwelling place," k'iu,"a place, village;a tumulus."
    " neighbourhood" (dadmu).
    1 1. kur, " to conquer " {kaSAdu). kiu," to act with martialvigour."
    12. £j kur, "to bind" (rakasu). kiu,readliu, " to bind." *

Of course it is not meant that kiu,k'iu,are the only Chinese

equivalents of the Accadian terms. I wished to show that,even

restrictingour comparisons withinthe narrow rangeof these two

closely-relatedand ultimatelyidentical sounds, it was possible to

find modern representativesof most of the Accadian homophones

written as .3^-, Vi KUR- Butit is not to be forgotten that the

Chinesekiu, k'iu, are, like all other soundsin the Mandarin vocabu

lary, members of a series ; and if we enlarge our horizon,so as to

TheAccadianLU, " to bind," p. 271, supra.

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