r.fnmtmy of the inbo-pacific islakds. IS* 



many Scytbic Tocables in tlie GBngelico-UUraindian anct A«one- 

 Biun languages which may either be of ihe archaic Draviro-Aui- 

 tralian era ar of the later East Tibmn. The Torres St. kenw^ 

 Jcinw ** head/* Timor M. garain^ Tana karah^ New Calcdoniad^ 

 ^r-moinff (kara-mai " face") Simang kala (Cerara ukar '*hair *),"^ 

 have TibftoH-Ultraindian affitiilies (koro Bodo, ?nkura Misbmi, 

 kra Gurnngr "head", kara Sin^phu, Milch., kra Tib. 'Miair ") ' 

 hut Malagasy has knra "sonll/* and the Kashmiri kala head,'^ 

 Latin cranium, Fin karw "hair" &c. suggest the possibility of 

 still older derivation. Anotlier term, koik "scull'- M array I.y 

 koik ''forehead" Port Lihou, koikn, 16., Cape York, appears to, 

 be clearly Ultraindian (koi fiintin, Nancowry, kui, kok Mani,, 

 pari B.f kak Uraon), Tag "hand " is probably not a derivative 

 from the Malagasy fanga, tarfgana like the Indonesian tangan &c., 

 but an Ultraindian term allied to the 8angirtak-Iar, Viti tbak^, Toro 

 haka, Vate tako ("hand/' "fool"), otoho Goront. Com p. the 

 Naga dak, Aino dek, tegi, Yenis, togan, tegon" hand/' tak khyai 

 Singphu "foot" Tang and lak are evidently r aria tioDi of ihs 

 tame nkimatc root. 



Names of inanimafe natural ohjecti, 



WATER. 



The namea of the more common inanimate natural enbetancei 

 have a like range of connection. That for " Water " there are 

 three South Drovirian terms. Nir Kurgi, Tuluva, niru Karn. 

 niSlu Telug. may be of Sanskrit derivation (nir Sansk). It is a 

 rare Scytbic and Semitic term enyer " river" Wolg:., nehr "river" 

 Turk., nahr Arabic. It is not found in Asonesian vocabularieaf. 

 The Koriak inb, Oetiak eny, preserve the n form of the primitive 

 root, which is also found slightly modified in the Lepcha ong, 

 Anam ni, Erub nie, Madura eng. 



It is more probable however that the original Dravirian form it 

 preserved in the Karnataka tirn, Brahut dir, in which case the 

 Sanskrit must he considered as a derivative of the Bravirian mo- 

 dification nir. The root ti, di, is very common, ti Chep., Milch., 

 di Magar, ti, tbi Karen kc* The broad forma are Scytbic, Cbineae, 

 tJltrainr dian, Asonesian. The Ultraindian ("Lubtippti) and Mi- 

 cronesian (Tobi) taru (Chanipbung thari) resemble the Bravirian. 



Vunal Tamil (anc), vellam Malayalam water** probably 



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