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Wakhi. 





Sarikoli. 



K. 









Kashghar ■ 



Kashkhhar 





Koshkhhar 



to keep, to hold [to seize] wadhiir-an 





wadhord-ao 



the kernel of 



a fruit 







stone 



. serk 



, 



rnkchi maghz Y. P. 



a key . 



. shik 



, 



achghu Ta 



to kick . 



• liich ding 



, 



liich dhadao 



a kid 



. chogh . 



, 



gherv 



a kidney 



. welk 



, 



arwits 



to kill, to slay 



sha-in . 



. 



zed-ao 





shay-am, shi-t . 



. 



zan-am, zind 





shitt-am 



. 



zed-am 





shitk . 





ztidhj 



a Kirghiz tent 



. khhirgah 



p. 



khhergoh P. 



to kiss • 



. ba tserak 



. 



ba cheigao 



a kite [bird] 



. tsar 



-. 



tsargh # 



the knee 



,. brin 



. 



zun P. 



to kneel 



. sak brin niiidhn 



• 



chii ziin nalist-ao 

 char zun nalist-ao 



a knife . 



i • koz 



, 



chog 



a knot . 



. zerakh . 





zerekh 



to knot 



, zerakh — - ding 



(to 







strike <$fc.) . 





zerekh — dhad-ao 





diam . 



. 



dha-m 





dikht-am 



. 



dhad-am 





— dietk . 



.. 



dhadj 



to know 



# , dish-an . 

 dish-am 

 disht-am 

 dishetk 





wazand-ao, &c, 



L. 









child-bearing la 



bonr . zicha 



. 



zicha 



a ladder 



. wakhhar 



. 



shatta T. 



a lady . 



. khhanzah 



. 



khhanzoh 



a lake, a pool 



. kul 



T. 



kaul T, 



a lamb . 



. wurk 





barka 



* Probably for chargh P., which has in Wakhi become contracted, by the loss of 

 the final guttural, to tsar. In the Yarkandi name sa for a kite, we probably have the 

 same Persian word in a form contracted to a still further extent by the loss of the final 

 r (which the Yarkandis are apt to omit in many of their words), and by the alteration 

 of the Persian ch which becomes ts in the Ghalchah dialects and simple s in Yarkand. 

 The series of corruptions (chargh, tsdrgh, tsar, sdj is so natural as to suggest the idea 

 that the Yarkandis obtained this Persian word through their Ghalchah neighbours. 



