iiTHNOLOGY OF THB INDO PACii'lC tSLAKDS. 



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The source is the Cbineae konp- K-t., kiang K-h., wliicli would Uiua appear 

 to have gprfiid from iS, I Iti-nindia to >iipal. 



Tlie Piuiiitu seaii, sin, »hi-t (wht^nce Bin-d, Ilm-d, Ind-us, India) may 

 ha I'ibetiin and not dimtty Si-yllik. 



The iScjtlio-Auaiu auu^ uug, sung is a common Indoneaiim word^ 



The ijibiliiiit, in tlift common forma for fvatt-r^ i» also rh^er in GyaniD|f 

 and Tak|i!i, (.ijii-o bus chi (U-clii G yarung^, clihi T!ik]«i), Abor a-sie, Newar 

 Mm-ai* 



Tilt! Chinese and Yuma ftill form for n aiir toi. tiii &c., ia current ns 

 r/L'<:r in iioilo Uui, Mampuriau dui-Kiai, tui-koak, tu-thau, tu-Hl^ tu-iel, tu^ 

 Liinbn cbua &.c. 



2, The Liquid Moot. 



lira' Har{Ki, dya' Jlaiivak, tuoter, rtver ; kh-ras, kk-iiuigj th-ak {for 

 (A- yak) Uhotian, /rA-m 'i'ukpa biuod. 



The r(i!*t oi the old Bkjtian kli-rsip, T;ikpn kb-i-a^ i^tik|.a khn-ro-rjwtf 

 (? kho-ri»^-f/HV ), bhnifl, is fovind in tlw 3\li!clu ^inwUir Art-nak^ 



forms whicii have been df rivctl from tx yt'TV arclmic Tibetan current. ITie 

 Bt-ny:*!!! rok-ta, iSindhi riit, may hf- n'ivnxUv- to it The ri>ot oeciira in 

 tlie LYTiini wf/t^-iiik. The softetied eurrexit form tii-ak, Lbojia th-yak^ 

 Siirj>a tb-ak, have made no progresd. 



Tlie Anam ti^^t hlmtd re.-^enihlt^ tlie I\aml>ojan slender form for ft-n/fr, 

 tik, ^tak &t:.). The Au&m form may be a i)urfiy local variation of Chinese. 



As water the root i^ Mon-Anatn djik, dat^ tak, ta>r, tik, nuk^ in NaukowT}' 

 rok (Nic. Afi-nak hhmd)^ Rentrali u-dak^ 3i'ewar iim, lu. Mvcr tu-k, 

 tiiu-la-tsu Kajra, ba-lomif? Khyeng. 



Tltefominrk, dk.nk&o. is river in Ka dak-tani, Kflmbomn ;>rek, 

 Burman ?tt-rik, wi-riet, jn-j-it, Kliyenfrlik, Jklou /wftr dhik. IMs slen- 

 der form w Uistiu;iruished from the broad rak, dak. &o, w(itn\ bloody and is 

 aimikr t« the Jliikhoinjjr re, i-i, Chaii^jrlo ri, Ttihlmiij ri-an^'-, Mu|,nir di, 

 rcater. Tim s^me slender tonn w ithout the finiil k h nho found in word;* 

 for rivery tuu-Jt Kaiubojun, tu-lil Mauipuri {two roots), li ku Siuia ur kc. 

 Burinan has nha a hroati form Wi-nich. i In the 'I'hochu elm-bra* tlie last 

 element is prob:vbly a biiuilar voeable b-ni\ ju-i-iC \ comji. hra' Horjuu 

 The Sarabawa /j-rantr i* tbu Burmaii vM-rach sot^ened. A similar form of 

 thu root occui'^ in j\likir lanjr fpattr, Inntr-pi rirrr. 



The root uucurs with the labial linal in tlie Lau fiun. nam watery rivir^ 

 mli Kasia i-nam bhod. 



The isame root idaa occurst in TiWto-Burman names for «7, in Pome 

 caat'si by itself and iu other* with the muue of the plajit from wluch 

 the oil u obtaineJ. Bliotiftu has /i-bru-mar in which bru or b-vw apjieara 

 to be an artbuic form of the liquid root for }^(ttt )\ llovpa has mur-unk, 

 in which thie liquid wot (bra' /mier^^rhak) has the Niculiar form. Takpa 

 baa kya-mar, iiA wluch kya appeal's to k an cvample of the {^utturid root. 



• Sun^-ai tmter's-J'aiJier may have been an archaic Tibeta» form, 

 u father, Lhona, Thocbu, t^rian. 



t Thid fonn is found ijj the name of the river Barak (fei-nik). Ia 

 Marco Polo*s time the Irawady appejLV.- to huM; be<-u known by the slen- 

 der form of the same yocable, "liriiu (i-^iiud =:m-riutj wt-rik). 



