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of lacer acquisition. It is North luJiaDj'* whence it has also spread 

 to Asonesia both in the Bengali-Teluga form (Beng. kukkur) 

 znd in the Hindi (kuttaj kutlo). Bajo koko^ Mangkasar kokang, 

 Kagayan kito, Kissa gida, Endeavour Riv, kota. It is E. Afdcan 

 kutta, kutti Danaktl, E, Asian, gottwft Koriak, kossa Kamfich., 

 and aa applied to the " cat " Korean, Scjthic, Caucasian^ Iranian, 

 Dravirian. The guttural root under vaiious forms, anil the same 

 ryot witli other postfixes, I, r, is very common in Scythic and all 

 the families of language that have a laj'ge glossarial element of 

 Scythic (Tibetan, Uliraindian, Caucasian, Semi tico- African, Ira- 

 nian, A^onesian of difftjreat eras.) For some examples of tliii^ wide 

 diffusion see the Africo-Semitic suhseetion and the Ti be to- Ultra- 

 Indian and Mon-Anam vocabulary in Chap. vt. 



As it is also applied to the" cow'* and the^'horee" it was proba- 

 bly one of those words that were early used for the first domestica- 

 ted quadruped. As examples of these applications I may instance 

 for "hopsu" the Yeni^eian kut, kus, E. Iranian and Pravirian 

 gud, ghota, ghora, ku Jra &e, for cow the Ugrian kusa, kas 

 Tungijsian kukur [in Bengali "dog"], and for both " horse" and 

 " cow" in the same language, the Yeniseian km, kut, ami the 

 Kamschatkan kousha "cow", kaga *' horse." 



3. The sibilant root of the Kol seta is equfilly prevalent with 

 with that of the preceding term. It is Gangeiico-Ultraindian 

 and Indonesian, Iranian, African (the sibilant somclimes changing 

 to the aspirate). The Kol variety appears to be an archaic Bra- 

 virian terra. It differs conaideraMy from the prevalent forms 

 both on the Irano-Cauea^ian and on the Gaiigelico-Uliraiinlian 

 sides. It resembles the Aino sheda (Kam&ch, hetan) more than 

 any of these and as usual some analogous forms are found in the 

 upper Nilotic vocabularies Agau ^ezena &c. The Caucasiiyi he 

 (Chart) appears also to preserve the N. Asian form, unless it 

 bea contmction of hue (Awar) which has the broad Ultrai/ido- 

 Asonesian form (asue, asu, su kc.) analogous to the Sanskrit 

 slioa. The Kasia kmen is probably a derivative from the Kol. 

 [For other applications of the root, see Hoo.] 



4. The Singhalese and Maldivian balla, bulu have been men- 

 tloned under " Cat." 



* Braliui has a variation of the same root, kuchaic, 



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