Tfl KTBSOLOOT OF THE I M DO PACIFIC fSLANtlS. 



rv in Sevtljic, and witli a flimilar ninge of application. Cnt^ TurVhh. mi- 

 sliik, pi-shik, ma-fihi &c., Ustiak mi-aak, AloagtjJ mi-cliioi, uii-i. 'i'liat tliig 

 was a very archaic ujifjlicatioii— prha^a the earliest, uiilejis the movxe was 

 the first of the hou.se fjuntlnii^dri (pipi, miiaii, muH, pj.-ise ice. &c.) — is 

 iihown hy the prevalonve of thr same root, and i>f the Muie combination.^, 

 in other families, inoluditi^r St!mi to-African bi-s, rauB &c., Cftutasian umi 

 Pashtu pish-ik, and Dravirian pi~shi 3cc. (See chap. V. 8ec. 11, Cat). 

 Similar vocables for the mouse are as widely spread ; and tho.^e for ihe 

 doffj ffoaf, shrrp and com are the same (e. g. cow Ugrian niia-ye, mes. 

 mus, wys &c.). It much niDre probable that the root wiia t-xtended 

 from th*e smaller to the kr^^n^r animals than the reverse. The order was 

 probably from the inous« and rat to the cat, and then to the dog", guat, 

 sheep, hog", cow, find bnlTijIof', as they were dome;4ti«ited. The hjousp and 

 rat would be thrs iir.-^t fjuadruped-^ to become inniatej* of huniiin dwoUinif-s, 

 and tfiey would 1m? the baiL^ that first attracted the cat and the do^r from 

 their coverts iiiid reconciled them to man's compamomhip/ The form 

 and the free position of the Tibetan mi kc. in the different comjwuntig in 

 which it occurjjj show that it 1$ not a derivative from Hcythic. It mnyt be 

 criually archaic in both hmnches of the Tibet^wScythic stem. The ultimjtte 

 source, or primary meaning', of the root appears bo have been maiif inaie or 

 female. It wan after wardf* aj3 plied to the males or females of the lower aid- 

 mab. In the Bhotian s\-mi Cat, Maiivak wo-wi (7fW, ding-m»" Iht^ahe^ mi 

 haa probably ita feminine function, 'ihe Bhotian and Gj'arung mi Mm ia 

 the same form of the laliial. Itia also Ugrian mi, ma, mis, nie.H, miaa, mas, 

 mu!!, min, man, mar, mur, fee, and in that family may also be the soin ce 

 of the aimilar names of domrj^tic animals. The Bhotian ]>Iul, pa, lia 

 JktfuTj and ama, ^raii, mo &c.) trnth/r, have not oniy been applied to aiii- 

 malsj to designate the sex, and thii;* orig"inated substantive name*, but have 

 come to be used detiuitives with inanimate sabitantivcs. The slen(li»r 

 form is not current a definitive in Bhotian, Horpa or Gyarung", but it 

 13 found in Thoehu -t/ii, -/jf, Manyak -mi, -pi, -H, Lhopa -be, and in tiau- 

 getie dirtlectf'. 



The Bhotian byi of byi'^« Cut althongh primarily identical with the 

 lers'ile sexual bi, mi &c. has evidently bat) a distinct history. It prt^aent* 

 it^lf QS a root used ssubatantively for the Cat, and that thta application was 

 very archsdc appears from ita being- found both in the Chiiiej*e w-los^ry 

 and in that of the Scythic, and most of the other Aaiatio formation». La 

 appears to be the maac. liquid root used postliually as in pa-Za Jatht ry 

 chang-rrt goati chu-irt ctit. 



Ba, CmVj in the same root m the pha in pha chuk. »erpa lias ma ehu. 

 Ba or pha and mu art- identical with the Bhotian .sexual labial detinitivea 

 aad posttiied, pa, ba, po, bo &c, masc., ma, mo &c. fern. 



In the Lhom dialect of Bhutian bha ia the Zfw//, lang the C4/«* ; the 

 compound ba-iang-, pa-lan»;f is used m some dialects for the cufv. in lang-inv- 

 che, ih'phunt, laiijf uikei* the muse. postL The woof Manyak is ai^o ra- 

 dically the name muse, def It hai« the same form in Thochu m a p<^ittiXj 

 msAV-rvo Birdf iiyaif-«'y Crori'. Bhothii! haa bo, to, pbo, po, 



* I have found a somewhat similar remark in Admiral SchiichkoflTs 

 Verg'leihended VS«rterhuch ii., 224,— ReferritiK' to the identity of some 

 widely prevalent nsixnes for the Cat, Do^, and Mouse, he explains it by 

 sayinjf thut they uiuaI huT« hwu tke ikAi dgiucatic apim&k. 



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