ETHPfOLOGT OF TBS INDO PiCtFIC tSLAffDH, 



Tnai nak Monkey Muttu. 

 it-lak Silcnff. 

 kk-niu Elephant Tablung. 



i. Cat. 



I. (a.) The old BHotian byi-la ia only fo^md in tlie Bli. dialect of Lhopt, 

 pi-li, but it occurs in a i-ontracted form iii the Serpa and Sunwar be-r-77M>. 

 Murroi liaa fa-v/ii-r and Uuruiig *ta-wa-r. The Serpa and Bunwar 

 form id also Malf bf*r-i7(< and Umon hir-kha, Bimilar namea are preva- 

 lent in Teluffu, Uorid, Kol, and in the f^anskritoid lanpiag^s of Northern 

 India, bir-al Jjengidi, hil-al iicmdj pilli Telugnj, Inilau Maldivien, billi, bil- 

 Itto Hind. J bilaij billeft Hitidhi, bra-ir, bra-ur, Kashmiri. A sinular word 

 is nMd for the Tiger in Bravirian, pili Tuluya, piri Toda, puli ia the other 

 dialects, 



T!»*! exoeptionol Deoria Chutia raidi{?€ isprobably mid^-ffe from mi-E- 

 ffe, biri-*7S (conip, Male ber^^*, Toda ))iri, Tuhiv. pili, Hind, billi). 



(b.) Tbe. Bhutian form is also founa with the nxasculine partide pre^ 

 fixed in tbe Lubuppa /rt-ini, N. Tanij^khul la-mf., in whi«h the root has 

 the same form at* ni ihe lihut. hy'i-la, Tbe Muhinip, Tjtblung' and Mmiig 

 fi^mi, Kyau mi are probably contractions of a similar term, 



(c.) Tlie common Yuma min &:c. of min-cho, mim-iwi Kumi, raeng", 

 mi Kyaa, ta-myin Mru, min Khyeng", min^yo, /A«-mi-yo, j»(i-min-yo 

 Karen, ( l lifjin^ Sak ), found ako in Mikir ment? (Kyau) and Ahoaa 

 men, rewmble tbe Bhatian nii, imd do not appear to be vmiatioua of the 

 Oinne^ie voi able. But the Kami clio of nitrt-rho and the Karen yo ajtpear 

 to show that it was oHi'ijiallv the fern, qualitive in this ij-roup alao. f See 

 nil. ^ . n fi t- L 



II. Tbe Gyarangf form ttz-rliu appearsi to be the immedinte parent of 

 the broad Biirman /f-rouiifr, Ar-young, — the Bumian group having strongf 

 6]>ecial affinities with < rvonnic'.' 



III. Tbe liquid root' in the prevalent slender form (Chinesep Uiopa, 

 Draviiian, i\, Indian) and with the r of the XijMilo-Vindyan forma, ijf 

 found in the ea^;tern 8iib-IIiin»»layjm btmd diryoined frfjm the labiat, or 

 with a distinct root or detinitive iiit^rjjosied. Taying Mi.«ihmi, fna-^Vt-ri, 

 Wrt— f?r«— ri, Alxir-iliri mtii-(ia~ii, ku-du-ri, mni-ku^Tif Chang-Jo dai-ni 

 [corap. Garo /«-rantr, dm-miig till], Tbe nia-ja, ka-da kc. of the Mishmi. 

 Abtjr tenns may have been double preiixes, in accordance with tlie Tibetan 

 habit of beajiiJig particle/i, which is well preserved in iioine of tiie Abor 

 directive* [tintr p. 15), and if so tbey probabty served to distinpTiiah the 

 names of thtf Cat from thosie of otber animals having the some root, aiid 

 one of the defijiitives. Tims Jlor.ie '\& kn-ri in Teugiia Nftga ; Bu^'alcc ia 

 aa~loi, niTa-loi &c. in aome Mnnipiiri dialect* ; and in Mii^hmi the root, 

 with one of tbe pretixes, occur:* in leb liotf (wild), ba-]i \h. (donie:^Hc), 

 irt-loi Bn^ittoe. The Lepcha a-ivu ia probably a contraction of a Bbotiau 

 or Miflhmi-Abor form, the former iirohably, as the adjacf>nt dialecti* Jjave 

 wa-r, bf!-r- The Dhimal men-khou is the Abor men-ku-n with the 

 liquid elided, and the Newar bhou anp^ana to be the lalaal pretix in a liftiud, 

 tbrm (romp. Maldivianbu-lau). The Rtir^ri na-ri Tif/tr also fw-panitesi the li- 

 cjuid fruni the ]>reva1ent Bhoto-Dmvirian kbial, and Buppoi ts the deriva- 

 tion of all the iJra^ irian terms trom Tibetan guurcei*. It is cunrwcted with 

 the Abyr-Mtsbnii form da-ri,— ta, da, na j .sa, zii, ia, cha kv. bcijig merely 

 vanuti<>r.9 of the .lame Tibetan pretix. The liijuid must have been carried 

 acrui:* tlie lliiiialajas before it wa^ coucneted TN'itk tile other elemeatdj iui(| 



