CHINESE ELEMENTS IN TURKI 579 



In the Turkl collectanea of G. RAQUETTE 1 I note the following 

 Chinese words: 



cin-say, celery, from Vin ts'ai J^ ^j. 



manto, meat-dumpling, from man-t'ou fH |H- 



lizd, a Chinese foot (measure), from Vi-tse /?, -f. 



lobo, a long turnip, from lo-po |j >ffj. 



jin, a Chinese pound, from fan /p. 



A few other remarks on Turkl words recorded by Le Coq may 

 follow here: 



ndhdl ("ruby") is apparently Persian Idl (above, p. 575). 



zummurdt ("emerald") is not Arabic-Turkish, but Persian (above, p. 519). 



There is no reason to question the Persian origin of palas ("cloth, sail"); it 



is identical with Persian balds (above, p. 495). 

 dowd ("hill") is identical with Turkish deve, teve ("camel"); cf. Toung Pao, 



1915, p. 21. 



yttpis ("snow-leopard") is identical with Mongol irbis ("panther"). 

 1 Eastern Turki Grammar, Mitt. Sem. Or. Spr., 1914, II, pp. 170-232. 





