jaTHNoLoer or tub iHDa*PACiFi« islanb0. 



MOUNTAIN, HILL. 



• Five YOfiablea are current. .Two, found in Gond and Male only, 

 are of iininediate Tibeto-UUramdian derivation. Both are Ta- 

 rietiea of a Scyttiic root. The of hers are archaic. Of two forma of 

 a Scythico-Iranian root, one^ found in Kol only, appears lo bo 

 the more ancient. It it Samoiedc, SaumaU-Galla, Australian, 

 Ceiebesian and Philiftine. The second form is ¥b, Iranian and 

 Australian, The third root is also Scytbico-Iranian and in form 

 Yeniseiaii. In Aaonesia it has only a U raited Indoneaian range. 

 , Of the two Southern roots, one, var, par, mal^ — ^Austrulian 

 wahr-rOf wtiriat — Is Scythico-Iranian, Ftn ware, Ostiak pal/a, 

 Woig. wandaf panrfd, Sunsk. parua, Kashm, bal, wan, Aino 

 buri, Samoieile boro, Turkish murtm; Fin wuori, Latin nionf. 

 The u form is preserved in the Saumali boro, bor, Galla horga 

 on the one side of the Indian Ocean and on the other in the Kol 

 baru, Australian murdo, morrfo, muvds. It is also found in 

 Indonesia as a word for'*hill," Philiplne puru, palii, Celebes bulu* 

 The New Guinea wera is probably a local modification of the 

 Draviro- Australian war but the form is also Samoiede bre, Ostiak 

 pel, Caucasian m*hr, German ber^. 



The fccond root kor., kun, kud, gud, is also Nortb-Gangettc 

 gun, kung, kang, and Indonesian, gunong (Tamil konom). The 

 root is Scythico-Dravirian, but the Draviro-Aioneaian form i§ 

 Ye'nisieaD, konony. This broad form is also found in the Fin 

 gora, kurw/i, gures, ko, Persian ku, Zend kof, tatin collw, 

 Mabrah kaluw, gar-tin. Another Yeniseian form, kar, is found 

 iu Paahtu gar, Galla gara, Maram kalong and Ceram ukara. 

 The slender tJgrian ky, kero*, Turkish kir, is found in Georgian 

 kirfe and Sanskrit girt. The ultimate guttunil root is Chinese 

 and Siamese as well as Ugrian. The Karnataka and Tuluva 

 forms gudda, gudde — presej-ved in the Kol gutu a small hill"— 

 appear to have spread into Asonosia at a mu»h earlier period than 

 the South Dravirian and North Gangetic gun, kun, if the Austra- 

 lian kuta be referable lo it. 



In the North two other vocables are found, dungwr, dongar 

 Good, and toke Male. Both are Gangetico-UItraindian, Tibetan 

 and Scythic. Sindhi has also received the Japanese, Turkisff, 

 Tibetan and Male form (takar). The New Hebrides takuar, and 

 tof appeal' to be allied to some of the preceding terms. 



