KTHNOLDOY OF TKIl IN DO- PACIFIC ISLANDS. 



krnp 



Gotid (" 





Bnrman 



krc 



it 



1 1 



Moil 



nktilui 





kurt 



Naga 







korta 



uiiaitgio 



gbori 



Si lid hi 



^tn'iri 





kurra 



Tirhfii 



^our 





gaur 





The term cannot he traced hoyond the Cancasua as npplfcd to 

 tlitj horse. But in iu oIIkt Hindi application " cow", goni, it is 

 St^ythio (see "Cow", " Buffalo"), or rather one of the two roots 

 in the most widely spread Scythic term hutur, eagar, &c. Proba- 

 bly kar, knr &e. existed separat^Jy in ^^cythic as in Inilo-Enropean, 

 fiH n tovm for ** horse", cow-", " J*og" before the compound 

 vociLbte was formed. The name may have originated in the 

 conjunction of the nani^psii of two animals previously posi^essed by 

 the tribe whicli first used it. The prevalent Scythic form appears 

 to he rcfen^ble to the Cirmese sha — gau, &c in which gan is 

 " bulfatoe " and shaj sua, &c, apparently varieties of the root for 

 «Hog" 'chu, Jic. ' 



7. Perrrt', Gond, " n hrga horse." This word^ — ^whieh is pro- 

 bably to ho found in some of (he western languages of India also — 

 is Semitic, fitrAm Mahrah, fcras Amhanc, Suuniali, ferda Gullo,- 

 fai'x, ikras, Ambic he. It must have been introduced into western 

 India with the Arabian hoi'sc. In similar forms ii is European, 

 fci'iy perc/, pferdf paarci hor.s<^. The original broader form of 

 Mahrah and Arabic preserved by some of the African members of 

 the Semitico-Libyiin family, mmtif mar Act, murtahad, and Indo- 

 Eur. mar^A, mcr, mare, is Scythic, bora, mori kc. The Gond 

 pOHlfix rfsemblcs that of the Mongol and Tungusinn muri/i, mnn7, 

 and as the Saraoiede form bora is Gyarnng, Manyak, and AIkh" 

 (sec. ii) the Gond may |*ossihly be Soythico-UUraindian. But 

 line form of the root b Semitic, and I he poiilfix i:i a native one. 



