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occurs in the Etruscan fale and common Ugric and Mongol 
pel, pal, boldek for “ hill.’ The second is a common suffix 
to mountain names, as ta, tt, to. 
No. 121, Aai (now Kefr Aya), “the mound” ,or “ house.” 
Akkadian H, Medic H, Susian Ua, Turkic ev, “ house.” 
No. 125, Turmanna (now Turmanin) from the common 
Turkic tur, “abode,” and man, “an elder” (Akkadian man, 
“king ”) with the suffix na, “ of,” for the genitive (as in so 
many Turanian languages), “ the chief’s camp.” 
No. 134, Aara probably “ river”? (Akkadian ari, “to 
flow’), as in the Jacut wrdék, “stream,” and Hungarian ar, 
“ flood.” 
No. 140, Kharka,* “ the mountain ”’, asin the Medic kurkha, 
Lap. kor, Akkadian kur, Cheremiss korok. 
No. 146, Aunpili, “mountain town”, from un (Akkadian 
unu), “a town”; Turkic in, wnneh; ‘ dwelling,” and pil, 
“hill ” (see above No. 120) with the adjective ending 7. 
No. 148, Aunuka, “the great city” ; compare the last and 
the Akkadian unug, “ city.” + 
No. 153, Suka, probably from suk, a swamp or pool in 
Akkadian ; the Buriat Mongol preserves it as sokot, “a 
morass.” 
No. 155, Sutekh-bek.{ The first word in the name of the 
god Sutekh, and this, like Nos. 125, 146, gives an indication 
of grammar, the genitive preceding. Bek is probably a word 
for “ fortress’ or “shrine.” It is known in the form buwkti ; 
in the Malamir texts, and in the Uigur we find bekiik, “ for- 
tress,” from the root which in Turkish occurs as pes, 
“strong,” and in Mongolian as bék0. Probably also the 
town Mabog, in Syria, may mean “shrine” (or fortress) of 
Ma,—the earth goddess Maia, from Ma, “ earth.’ 
No. 158, Ninuren anata. This should be a crucial case of trans- 
lation. Nin is a well-known word for “ chief” in Akkadian, 
and also for “lady.” The gender is not distinguished. In 
‘Tarkic language we have nene, “mother”’ (the Akkadian nana). 
There are many towns in Asia Minor, of which the names 
end in anda or anata (Akkadian anda, “ on high”’), from an 
(Turkic on), “high,” and ¢a, the locative suffix in Akkadian, 
and in the Turkic and Mongolian languages. Uren appears to 
* Otherwise read Khalukka, 7.¢., “the great city.” 
+ Apparently Un-uk, “ great town,” from wn as above, and wk (compare 
Mongol ije), “ great.” 
t According to Chabas this should be read sef, but he also compares 
Suduk, the Pheenician mythical hero (Voyage d’un Egyptien, p. 315), 
