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because of their very extended use, they differ fundamentally from 

 other body-part nouns in that they have, besides their literal, also a 

 more formal, local value; in this capacity they are regularly employed, 

 also, as the first element of noun and pronoun local phrases, and, some 

 of them, as the second element of local postpositions. In the fol- 

 lowing list the second column gives the literal body-part significance; 

 the third, the generalized local meaning; the fourth, the correspond- 

 ing independent noun (in a few cases, it will be observed, there is no 

 such corresponding noun) ; and the fifth column, an example of a 

 local phrase : 



The last two are evidently compounded; the first of di^- above 

 anji al- eye, face, the second of gwen-'N'ECK and probably adverbial 

 prefix 7ia-u- under. The noun liau-x- woman's private parts may 

 possibly be connected with this prefix ha-u-, though, in view of the 

 fact that Jia- appears as the incorporated form of the noun, it seems 

 more probable that the resemblance in form and meaning is acci- 

 dental. It is possible that other rarer body-part prefixes occur, but 

 those listed are all that have been found. 



In not a few cases, where the body-part prefix evidently has neither 

 objective nor instrumental meaning, it may yet be difficult to see a 

 clearly local idea involved. This is a;pt to be the case particularly 



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