1838.] 



Remarks on Indo-Chinese Languages. 



57 



into the Bengali column, of such secondary forms in current use as come far 

 nearer, in many cases, to the Assamese terms,than those given in the " Com- 

 parison." Thusbdyu is compared with botah, while bdt, equally a Bengali 

 form, is omitted. So, with asthi a hone, should have been given hdr ; with 

 karna, kdn ; with hasti, hdti ; with pitd, bdp ; with matsya, mdchh ; for 

 pushpa, phul ; for mastak, mur ; with shringa, shing ; with bdnar, bandar ; 

 with chandra, chdnd ; for janani, md ; with rdtri, rat ; with tail, tel ; for 

 prastar, shild ; with danta, ddnt ; with grdm, gdn ; all identical, or very 

 nearly so, with the Assamese of the table. 



In the same use of secondary forms, the results of comparison with 

 some of the other columns also would be slightly varied ; as the Bengali go, 

 a cow, would much more nearly resemble the Khamti ngo and Siamese 

 mgoa, than garu (the only form given) from which the Assamese goru is 

 drawn. Thus too, were tej and lauha given in the Bengali column, for blood 

 —with the former, signifying vigour, the principle of vigour (and so applied 

 to the brain, marrow, bile, semen, &c.) would agree the Assamese tez, the 

 Jili tashai, the Koreng tassyai, &c. while the latter would appear to have 

 originated the Khamti leilt and Siamese lilat ; whereas rakta shews no 

 agreement with either. The Assamese porud, an ant, might shew a resem- 

 blance to the Bengali pinpard, though none with pipilikd, &c. These 

 and others We shall reduce to a table as follows. 



English. 



Air 



Ant 



Arrow 



Blood 



Boat 

 Bone 



Bengali, 

 bat 



pinpari 

 shar 

 tej, lauha 



nau, dingi 

 har 



Asamese. 



botah 



porua 



tez, 



nau, 

 har 



Cat marjar 



and myao, a cat's mewing, 



whence niyaokari, the mewer mekuri 



Cow 

 Dog 



Ear 



Elephant 



Father 



Fire 



Fish 



Flower 



Foot 



Hair 



Hand 



He;id 



Horn 



Leaf 



Moon 



Mother 



Mountain 



go 



shwa 



kin 



danti ^ 



bap, bapu, baba, bupai, 



poran (to burn) 



machh 



phul 



pa 



lorn 



paui 



mur 



shing 



parua, pan 



chaud 



ma 



kan 



mas 



phul 



mur, 

 hinff. 



jun, 



ai (mat : grand- ai 



mother) 

 adri — 



Cor. sar 



Kha. leiit, Si luat, Ji. tashai, Kor. 



tazyai 

 Ana. ding 

 Man. saru, Song, karau, Ch. sorii, C. T. 



aid, .S. T. aru, Lu- arii, N. T. ariikau 



Kh. mid, Sz.meau, Gar. mengg6, Song. 



and Kor. myauna, An. meyu 

 Kh. ng6, Si. n^6a 

 Bar. khwe, Sing, kwi, M. hwi, Song. 



shi, Kap. &c, wi. An. slid 

 Ji. and Kap. kana, Koren. kon. Ch. 



•khunu, Lu. khana 

 Mish. dat6n 



Ah. abba, Abor. babu, Maring, papa, &c. 

 Co. pur 



Mar. Lu. and Song, phai, Ch. apha£ 

 Anam. long 



Sony, ban, Mar. van, Ch. apan, Lu. pang 

 Co. mari 



Ak. kung, An. sung 

 Koreng. panu 

 Si. diian 



Kh. An. and Si. me, Bar. a.m6,Kar. mo t 

 Garo ama, M. ima, Co. omi 



Abor. adi 



