JONE3] PROCEEDINGS. [1890.
bar, the enclosing walls of a town (katnatu). To wrap, inclose,
infold,andbind,are kindred ideas; and if the Accadian signbe set
up, in its original position,thus,*~|, its likeness to the Chinese '"J
becomesobvious enough. Otherinstances,in which the Accadian
bar answers to the Chinese pao,are the following :—
Accadian.
bar,"brother,side"{ahu).
bar,"hyena"(aM).Chinese.
pao, "placenta, brotherly,uter
ine"; t'ung-pao, "brothers"
(lit.,same womb); pao, "to
unite."
pao, spotted felinae, as the
leopard,panther,jaguar,etc.;
"spotted,marbled"(dialectic
p'ao,pa,bo).
bar-kak, "a spotted deer" (the p'ao,Shanghaido (=ba-r), "the
male, as indicated by J^<| spotteddeer."*KAKis "horn,"
nitaaddedto the expression ; the Mandarinkioh;Cantonese
Assyriandaiiu); bar-kak,"a kok ; Amoy kak,"horn."
gazelle"(sabltu,fern.).
bar (nam-g'u), a "bird of the pao,"thespottedbustard."
field" (d&du, ibbiltu).
bar," robes" (subatel&ti," dressof pao,"\ong (embroidered)robes,"
honour");bar-dib,"clothes." such as the sovereign gives;
pao, "a swaddling-cloth";
p'ao,"a robe."
bar, "to weave"; uS-bar, "the p'aoso, "to throw the shuttle"
loom"(Oppert). {videbal)
bar, "side, bank, fence, wall" pao (andp'u\ "a low wall for
{ahatu,itiatu,kamdtu),"cas\.\e, defence";"a small earthwork
town'' (maftdzu); <-Z.^barr\, or fortifiedtown";"acitadel";
"village" (kapru"1?3);bar "a hamlet";"walls"(of a city);* Also calledpiao,dialecticpiu,pid ( = bir ?). Under pin(oldsoundbio)
we find piao, the markings of a tiger, a kind of tiger-cat, streaks,veins. Pao
is also a white spottedhorse; cp. p'o, white,dialecticp'o, p'i, bit, = PA-R, bu-k.
Thereare other relatedwords,e.g.,p'i,dialectic/'/',/*/,hi, a leopard (= ri-R.
RI-R); p'i, a bear spotted blackandwhite. TheAccadianbar(bir,bur,
clearlymeantdiscolor,jtoikiAoc. Cp. bar, "theiris'of the eye (buruiu).
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