EtllXOLOGV OF TUB ISDO-FACIFIC TiLANM, 



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Tlw ai rariation tit also Scythia, but in the Irawftdi tongnioa it npjiearg to 

 be a local viirijition of ui. The short funm tu, t^u, m, i.p|iear to be uhy 

 Jociil, afthousrh siuiiliir varieties OL*cur in Scythk vociibulaiics. A sin^lo 

 forM iriipurteti in one Tibetan vtwabulary muy have ori^i^iuateJ all thuae 

 southLTa variiilions ut" the brond torm. 



2. The aleiider s^mthem foi uiti wivi ma-<tly connect+'ii wifh e:ich other, 

 ftnd deriveJ probiibly fwrn thtr Sifau {tiviiniiiij.Tukjjii) .^limilar funn. Its 

 prevalence in the northern, lT«AVrtill-liruhraa|iutnin ViM-abulrii Sinnf]>ho, 

 Mishrat, AbuTj is stroiitifly ia lUvonr its immedi;ite tl»;nv!ition from a 

 BOUthtiru rtifau dialpi-t ; luvd the extent to vvhiuh it has bfien ditftiscd 

 amongst the Iniwijili-Vuina vnnibiilijnes—esfxtrially in its Gyamnf); appli- 

 cation tobli/ml — rentier it pivtlwble tbut it was tht voCibleot' the iate."*t ^reat 

 Sifoii iQii^Tatlon, tlief tyjiiu if^ c^iiiu sicter of ivhich Ims .so often been nutoJ. 



3. ITie forms in n have a mueh more limited niu<;e. But their iipjli- 

 cation titrirtTj their ultme Scythie aftinm<'H, and their ttwun'eui:r in DliutiiiH 

 and Ajitim, show the form tJ have been archaically dUtjuct from ehui. 



The Dra'^irian rooti farwr^r, rhkr, Mmufy aredi.4im;t, and thwr Une af 

 conjicction with iScythie rthJtvS !i< al^iso tii.Htinct. 1. matiT^ niro, nir, riillu, 

 tim, Bnihui dir ] Mood He-nnir {iTii'Watt r^ se-i/ f/ti ki:. m/), U'dir-am^ 

 ke-Einiru (ke-m/>M ke=rip); Conip. al.-*.o eIio-;,ni-M/i«j clvi^mlnd rrd^ 

 cho -re, chore Wyof/, — and the I ra«Hi und Male kh«ij.so, ki^o revA khens, 

 kesu Jicjorf, 2. mitrr, ]m\\-/tf, \'*i\\'ttitt\ rh'rr varu-pim-~a7, aru, em,yGr, 

 polo, hule, pflj puzha (=]mla). .i. //'ater Uumi ; riiu r tndv, d^«l-da ; Mo(>d 

 ne-tturu, ne-tcarj na-ttur ; tiie rout tui-, tuJ Sec. La probably it variety of 

 tir, Jir, * 



The Kol and ITraan name for rhrr add^ a 4tli roiit, gurra Kol, khar 

 Uraon. It ia found in An^aiiii, karr, kerr, and Chep,irjp:, e-hor. 

 The Tibeto-tUtruindiau liquid Ttxit h found in Kol dtih, aha matfr, 

 A slender form of the a^'pinit*' cIu'-hA. tmUr hid been ret;eived iiito 

 Uraon, in addition tothenatiwlivbiiil, uni, 



Fonitpi Ihlatiom. 

 nc Silfilunt Hoot. 



This, as we have seen, h Chinese, imttr^ and Scythic, tt'aUr, rirrr. The 

 ftrchaic broad form appt'sirs to be Chino-IIijUiilaie. A siiTiilir tbr.n i* 

 found in the more piinuitive Scythic voelw. ilo^^t of the fbrniij for river 

 ere Scythic in form, the older llim.daid vocb. of Ukraiadiii prc^ervijiji the 



Sure Scythic variety sujii,'' &.(.". (Mun^roliaii, Turkish). The sibildut iind 

 cntal root 18 the "most impurmut in the Hey tide vor.ibu lanes. In the 

 older it has the labiai pretixed. Im we-.-^i, Ufrrian wi-ty, wi-t, vi-a, Jupan 

 ici-zu, Aino nrer be-zu, be-/,, tratrr wu-'/;-ka, wn-ehii. 



The root is aUo found in T'^riau far:.v-fia thti (;auea.^ian tr-un, shin, cht, 

 p-si, /?-!k'h &c. tvatt r ; ehi, ju-.-ti, chor ^ce. ritur (Georg-iiin wi-tx); ki, tsha, 

 cha nce, blood {ikhnhi).- Indo-lilurupeau has vva-ajc-r, wa-t-er, wa-da &c. 

 The Liquid liouL 



The primary forms ore rak, rat, kk, dak, imk, nuk j — nam. The root 



• In sec. 11 of ch. v. tlie Ultmindiun tom ia eonipstrfd with fiom» 

 of the Dravirian foniw. But it is now clear, from the colUttiou of th» 

 Xi heto*Ultmndiaii nameS| that the root is ru (fa-ru). 



