CTMNOLO«T Of THK TVOO-FACiytC fStANDS. 



(sometimes bi, pi, tte kc,)\ the sibilant under the furras m, iti, an, lya, 

 tchft, chek Sec; aim the na.-'al tinder the forma nu, nuiii, na, jii;, nyoug-j 

 yoiif?, >ng, ing &c. 



Of thctse the two fomis of the khial find tljp Hquid are t}te common sex 

 words; and they ftccur most frft|iionrlj as :*uidu ar aj^ suhstiuitive wortlj, 

 ill the name* of animals. The .libijnrit i:* ram 115 a spx i|iiulitive. It {» n ve- 

 ry common element in najne.s of animnlH, hut from it^ rurity aaau induhi- 

 table flei term, from fonu, nnd from th'» sfx ivortls iisuallv joined with 

 it, we must consider it &^ an inde[ienil*«nt mot in the eM&tutjf Himulaic 

 iinimul vocidjularyj wliateverit mav have ht-en oritrj dally. 



In many (ia.«e!» it is difficult, aud in Home imiKiu^sible, to ai^certmn wliich 

 of two conjoined rwtts, lioth prinjanly sexual, i:< f?nhstaritive, iind whit'h 

 quaiitivf. It nhu happriis, from the euinnlativf^ hsihif vi' rlie formation, 

 that a mime ftometinipa contninti three nex rootr*, — the one that oripnally 

 bof^ame jtnhrttantive ; another tirr<t joined with it as a ni. or f. quulitive, 

 i*nd afterwards b»«in}j it^ apx meauiH;r nnd lieconiinir dehiiiHve concrp- 

 tnl ; and third sniicniddt'd t(i nmrk the sex aptiu, Thti.'* the ma.'ie. 

 root I0 npftlied tlw Elephant took the mA^c lahiul pref., nud on tbia toii- 

 eretin^* M'ith the n<ot, I'-bi, a jwistfix fl a;? iiddetl |<-ln-ii/, The root tso 

 a.j)p]ied to the Coit^ took the ma.sf . qoalitive Z'^-m, and tlii:^ r< a 1 cretin*!; into 

 a poatfii, the fen», funn l>et"tnne w/«-tsji-/r-ru, eqiiivjilH'jit to " female Bull", 

 If «wt-t>^u tirst conereted, »w/-tsa-/r-nii must ori^iiially have been applied to 

 the Itiill C'mulc Cow"). I ti ?iLn"i*ni! iiititajire.>i (he tiame crjoiptmiid of two sex 

 roiits chaJi^eH the Imjctiou!* uf the routs with rlie chalert o!- with the ap- 

 plication. Thus in such u word as la-mi or mi-bij th** labial must be con- 

 sidert'd an sulii^tantive in onr^ appliavtion, bmiuae it is in dialettd where 

 it rejets the liquid and njipearrf m a simple root or with disfiupt s^ervilea, 

 while iu a diffeient appliaition the Utiuid is obviously the sultsiantive. In 

 marking the f|^ualitive njot-s in the cjmjtounds I liave been jLTuided hv a. 

 comparison ot viw^a hula lies and by jreneral probabilities in eaeli coue, liut 

 I am far from contii!ent tlnat a larg-er acc|uaintanee with the fr^oseiary of 

 the fonmition will cjitaljJi.-^h the correutne:*a of my analvr^is ihroui^hout. 



The followinp- appear to lie exnmple.«j of the qnalitive usw of the rootf. 

 Whether in a parliiular dialeet, they retain the uri^inal sexual nieiininj^- 

 or have sunk into detinitives absolute, or those mark.injnf a class of animnlK, 

 can only he agcertuiued when the existinji" habits of the dialei-t are better 

 known, \Vlien the form aj^recfi with that uf the current sex wnrd*, aa it 

 does in some of the dinlects for which wp havo |Lrraiumnliail detnils, it pro- 

 bably retains its masculine or feminine fnuctinii even wh^■n it h«s beeome 

 a prefix or [losttix. 1 jpve a few names in wliit-h the sexual or detiniljve 

 use of the qualitive ap}*ears to be preserved. ^ 



Fortlie Cat we find la-»ii; ja-«*t, w-ftn, w?o-ehi, w^fl-clio, in whieh the 

 two Tibetan roots are conjoined with a feni. def,; anrl nirwai-^wj, /)«-kwni, 

 Art-ng:au-(i> in whieli a Chinese root has luase, definitives, 1<W the Do0 

 we tind L-hoi-w/r; for the Hog haAi UAI proh. {ti—ai)^ chtt^rnkf.^ 

 for the Gout /•w-rtin w.; nd'/i-/r, m^tc-fe m.i ehlu-ng-c/T', cho-/f, ina'-btf 

 ghA-bam m.\ w?-cba, vut-i\7.Q f.- for the Con' ehn-.'Wj'', imn-vhii, nui' 

 flu, /rt j-thu, aha-w«' /'., cho-rofu/j cha-rrt, si-m m., trifi^Umi ni,, mi-tom J'. 

 ntu'lAij-k-ru m. ; for the IJvJtalot; jvi^i m, ^Mi-naij jj«-na, ^a-reu wi.; 



