578 SlNO-lRANICA 



Chinese $wi-hien ^K $1 ("water-fairy"). 1 Gill, of course, is Persian gul 

 ("flower"). Jusai ("garlic") is not Chinese either. Mdjdzd ("chair") 

 is hardly Chinese, as suggested. 



To the second class belong ton ("cold, frozen"), which is apparently 

 identical with Chinese tun 5C of the same meaning, and tung ("wooden 

 bucket"), which is the equivalent of Chinese fun IB ("tub, barrel"). 

 There are, further, pdn ("board"), from Chinese pan S; yangza ("sort, 

 kind"), from yan-tse It! -?; qdwd ("gourd"), from kwa J&. 



The word ton-kai ("donkey's knuckle-bones employed in a game") 

 is tentatively marked Chinese. This term is mentioned, with a brief 

 description of the game, in the Manchu Polyglot Dictionary 2 as Chinese 

 (colloquial) tan cen'r kun'r W Of & St 5i and Tibetan t'e-k'ei-gan; the 

 latter is not Tibetan, and without any doubt represents a transcription. 

 The Chinese term, however, may be so likewise. In Manchu, the word 

 toxai denotes the smooth side of the knuckle-bone, and is apparently 

 related to Turk! tonkai. 



The Chinese origin of Id-zd ("red pepper, pimento") is not to be 

 questioned. It is Chinese la-tse J& -?\ 3 Still less can the Chinese charac- 

 ter of 'irJtin ("two men," that is, descendant of a Chinese and a Turkish 

 woman) be called into doubt; this, of course, is er Zen ^ A. 



The following Chinese words indicated by Le Coq may be identified, 

 only those of special interest being selected: 



dan, inn, bungalow, from tien j. This word has been carried by the Chinese 



all over Central Asia. It has also been traced in Sogdian in the form fim.* 

 go-si, official placards posted in a public place, from kao-U ^ 73^. 

 sai-pun, tailor, from ts'ai-fun ^ jft. 

 maupan, miller, mill, from mo-fan (cu) | i rf. 

 yan-xo, match, from yan hwo ffi fc. 

 tunli bdk, interpreter; the first element from t'un-$i jjj lj (see Loan- Words in 



Tibetan, No. 310; and Journal Am. Or. Soc., 1917, p. 200). 

 Ian, money, from Vien ^. 



ti-za, banknotes issued by the Governor of Urumc'i, from M-tse JH -J*. 

 jozd, table (Le Coq erroneously "chair"), from lo-tse ^ -J*. 

 Ian, bed, from Zwan jf^C. 



dd-dir, kind of horse-bean, perhaps from ta-tou ~fc S- 

 dan-za, notebook, from can-tse ^^ -^. 

 Sum-po, title of the Chinese governor, from sun fu p$ 

 Id-tdi, candlestick, from la t*ai $j^ ft. 

 min-ldn-zd, door-curtain, from men-lin-tse P5 ;^l ?" 

 yan-yo, potato, from yan yao ^ ^. 



1 See, further, above, p. 427. 



2 Cf. K. HIMLY, T'oung Pao, Vol. VI, 1895, p. 280. 



3 Cf. Loan- Words in Tibetan, No. 237. 



4 F. W. K. MULLER, Soghdische Texte, I, p. 104. 



