BTHXriLOGT OF '^UE IXDo PACIFIC tSLANDS. 



Jfrad, ITcir, llmrd. Face, Mouthy Lip, Tefth, Nam*, and Eftr, but it is 

 citjier in tliti jmre lubitil fwrn, or with a liquid or siUItmt final, r, 1, n, e. 

 TJre gTitturul of^curri in t!i« Ui^tiak wni-raik J'u^c. The Japanese me, naa- 

 nako f are rt* lated to thp Chino-TiSftao root ; Jai^ is o-raote. 



2. The ThuLihukan is the common Chinese ngnn, Kwang-tung &c. (yen 

 in Kwftn-hwa). ^ 



The Brtihiii and Dravirion khjiii, k:m, appears to have bften 'derived 

 from the Th«>chn form of the Chinese root. The Turkish kur appeiira to 

 be nlao c'oniiecti^d uitli th^ Thochn U!id Drav. form. 



The Miinyak mni and Tukpa me apjieur to he refenihle to the slendflr 

 form mik, Mijek ; miti is I'XpUiimible tLs inin from min^f, mik. The form 

 jnin j.'* found ill MriJ, mi in llijhti Ali^hmi, ^iing-jrhu, Dhimfll, An^anii, 

 and.Bfiveftil Vutiia diiikt'tfij, mi, mp, (i-mi, Ivarpn me, Khyerig^ mi-u-i ; min 

 wppearn to be an urchnic form of the root, as it isapphcd to ftic-f in Chi- 

 nese mien, misf, Ahar min^-w/ {ctfe a-miii^r), and iirolwiblv in other 

 I'^beto-Ultfjiinditui dialectji. The word Jttcv ia not included in the short 

 voeahularici*. 



The form in t, d, oncurs in Lhopa tni-to^ mi-dn (also fCiviX Miri a^mi-da, 

 Jf. Tanprkhnl a-rai-nha. Aft -fw, -doy a Lhojni poj^thx {^VL-tok hmd, frnn^- 

 do ft^ff kv.) the root may here have the contracted form. Hut mito may be 

 mit vocalm-d. Kyau has rnc-itt, tm-.-to. The. lihotian form mik, inig" is the 

 anost corairtou I ltmindo-( ftm^ctic. 



The brtjad Mon-Aiiam mut, ku'wot^ |>,'(-mot ^ mat, Kuki rnut, appears to 

 be a distinct impoi-ratioii hy that famUy. It is directly referable to the 

 Chinejie mok, imik- Tiie tunn inak if alt50 found in Champh. a-iauk, 

 Garo muk-ar, Dodo moir-<^if?, and Kirauti mak. Nagu has ti'-uvk. 



The Deoria Chut in muku-^j' appears to have the full Chineae muk (ti u 

 the Takpa fomj of the dental postfix). 



Tlie tJyarniifr mxak islonud ia Ihirman, myek-tfA{, myvit-si. 



The Abor nyek, ir-nyk, #r-nik uppearH to be ft moditlcalioti of a 



similar form. It iw fotind iu Lau //fl-tied, utid IvamlKijan //r-ne, jfM-nek. 



The fomi met, ined, bus ih'cn reeeived by the Kol diaierti. 



The common ta ot"the Lau fam. ai>jieai's to be irtttu mi*to JLhopa, mi-db 

 Miri, inat-tu Shan. Fact' ir* lui tii, in Natumug than. 



The Takpa lou^f^ {fltuid S) of me-lonir, i.-^ timnd in Taying Mishmi mo- 

 lom, jiia-lam, Garo inok-ronj mak-ar, (See alao J^ttr)* 



Fur. ^ 



J, na Dh. wr., and Manyak, nvo Horpa, ne fiyarunpr and Takpa, are 

 connected. The Thochu nukh or ttu-lih is probably a full arehuic variety of 

 the sflme root . I f s^o^it is neither Chinese nor iScytidc with themeanitig ear. 

 Chinese has rh, ro, no;}, li, i ; Kam^jchatkoii ilia, yel-uth, all-od, il-yud ; Cau- 

 <aiaian en, in, lai &e.; Indtt- European ohr, ur, ttur-«^j or-eil ; African ilai, 

 jroij ulu-A-j ttii-^yf, nia-ru, noa, no-f. 



In some lauffua^^eij tho c^r derives its name fifom its reaemblance to a 

 leaf. In the Takpa ne-i^-lap car, Wap is kt^^. Ah the Tibetiin na does 

 not cloaely re.senible the tieythio liud Chinese roots for <"ar, it appears to 

 be itself an older apidiisition of the same root for lih. lo~7rm, Hor- 



pa ba']d. In Manyak it htia n (as iu the word for mr) nipcAyi; Sokpa hag 

 Hai. In tiie south ne, im, lai occur, as well as other 1 form^. In the Alanipuri 

 croup na id tlie common form, and iu some of the dialects the fomjs for 

 leafmd. ear correspond, e. gr» i^ongpu nliui le€tfj «-nh|-koa car ; Cham- 



