June3] PROCEEDINGS. [1890.ts'ek(=zig)in Shanghai, just likethe Accadian dug = zib; or that
yen,"word,"is in Cantonese in, in Amoy gian,in Shanghai^/", like
the Accadian, in, "speech," "charm," "word,"gu(n),"to speak,"
gi(n)"to answer" ; or that jdn, old nfn, "a man," is yan,jin,nidng
in the three dialects,formsequivalentto the Accadian gin,din,nin
(ni)whichall mean "male," "man";or that juh,"to enter," old
nip,is in the three dialectsyap,jip, zeh (=gib, dib,zib),withwhich
we may comparethe AccadianJEJJdib alaku, ba'u, " to come,"
"to come in " ; or, again, as when we find thatmau,"theeye,""to
lookat,"answers to bb (=ba) in Amoy, andma," linen," to Amoy
ba, just as Accadian mas answer to bar, and so in many other
instances; or that mu,"wood,"has its counterpart in yen, "a post,"
yen, " the stock of a tree " (old yet, git), just as Accadian mu
answersto gis (=git) " tree," " wood" ; or, finally, thatshing," dish,"
is seng, zingin Amoy and Shanghai,so that we have the sequence
shig,sig, zig, just as in Accadian we have shi and zi, " spirit," sang
and zang, "head,"sidiand zida, "right."
III. What mayperhaps be called a Law of the Correlation or
Equivalenceof Forms, whichhas played a great partin the evolu
tionof words in both languages.
As an instance takethe Chinese series:—
yen, "a night-watch," "a guard"; yen,ngan, nge", "eye," "to
see";yen,im,yam,ye","to flame," "brilliant";yang,"to look up";
kin,"brilliance";kin,"to see"; k'in,"to long for";kien,"to see";
k'ien,"a firefly"; kan (Amoy), "to spy"; ch'dn(din),"to glare at";
chdng(ding), "toburnish"; chlen, also readHen, "tospy"; tien
(tin), "to glance at"; ti, "to gaze at"; ts'e" (Shanghai), "to
lookat with awe";ts'l"(Shanghai),"to spy";ts'iien, "toclear,"
" explain ; " tsing, " brightness" ; ising, " ghost" ; shen, shan,shim,
se", "to glance at," "flash"; shi, "to be"; shing,"bright,""pure";
/in (lim), " to behold " ; lien, " to discriminate " ; Ian, lam, le",
"toinspect";mien, "tolooktowards"; min, "whitealabaster";
ming, "bright";ming, "to lookat";man, "a flat eye";mang
(mung)," dazzling," etc.,etc.
Andthe Accadian :—
en, "to watch," gan,gin, " to desire" (strictly,"to gaze at"),
can,"toshine,"gan,"tosee"(igi-gan),g'un,"to lookup,"kin,
"tolookfor."kin,"to watch" (ki-en-nun),kin,"to desire" (kin-
gad), tin (din), "tosee," tin, "to want"(aS-tin), di, "to look
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