m 



its diffufifm is so viride that it moAt have taken plnce tit an exceprfiniLrly re^ 

 mote perjoil, 'llw. toriri'* in wliicb it iiiitiii**di!itj»fy pm-eded by thelabiaJl 

 >re prolirtbly \\ esit Tjbediii or Bhotiim, ulthoii^U iit the time wheu th«y 

 »ere tnmsported from TiWt tbere were prnl>ii>bly sevfnil Bbotian dialet;t8> 

 Tbe Abur-Misluiii tVirm:* are }»rr>bjib!y Emt Tibefjiii, ifri be the root, diii 

 ka fee. being- an E. Tibetiin j»retix. TJie tlyiiruii;r ^«-rbu would be a ^i* 

 mibir form, and /«-ri or ta^hy a?a-ri, /i«-ri &.u. may liave existed m othc^f 

 E. Tibetan dialects. 



But anothpr view may be taken of tbe Mishmi-Abor terms. In the nor- 

 mal animal nomenclature of tbe t'oi-matitm tbe lii:juid, aft we liave seen, 

 ppBsmtuM;., and the labial in tbe forms ma, mi tVm. il/ff-ja, jnu-diiii 

 may have been current hjs a feai. term, tbe root, beinfrja, dsa &c. Thm 

 .•m|)erad<led miiac", poHtfix would make tbe t<Tm uihai'.. ww-ja-ri. J^o ftom 

 jtt-rt, tbe made, form, the fern, may hiive been oiitained by tbe pretixiri'f 

 of mil-, or ma- wheji preiixed niay bav*- oome to be a nieredctiiiitive, 

 Tliat Jfl-nr whs the proper mn^^c. tbrm and bad it.-t coimteqiurt in tlie lem, 

 ja-wi;, ia eatabiirihed by the adjacent JJijliu M i.-.hiiii retaining' that foim 

 AS itafreneric name^ m like maimer a^ in sp. Blinrimi the lem. si-m hm 

 superseded all <)tber names. We may conelude Uieivlore tbatja, fi^a, the root 

 and merely a variiition of the Tibetan ehi, ehu, eheu, (elm, t»aii, sha, 



i"a Slc. in other appJ icati on s ; for tir/er su, tsji^ ju Jfee. are used). Innwft-ku-ri, 

 :u may al^o be a variiition of the same ro:»t (chu, tu Sec), (Sne Uof/), 



The tvume conibiiiution with the labial delinitive prepared (as in byi-la, 

 pi-h} — Ibuud in Manyak only araon":?it the known 'J'ibetan dialettSj {wt«- 

 clieu) — (x curii in the South in Khori A'ng:a m«-chi (Thoehu /w-ebi), Bodo 

 TOou-ji, J okika m^•-s^^ Kami mi«-dio, Karen tha-mm-yo. The Dophla* 

 Aka fi-dwr ii-^, w a contraction of nn analof-'OLis form, Tim Jobot* ai d 

 DophUi root vowel in m. (;:oTre5pondi' with that of the !Hijhu Mij^hmi ja. 

 Tbe Bhotian form is preserred in Limgke si-yo, the tinal abooccurni4Jf 

 iji rbf Karen iA/i-mi-Yo, </(a-min-yo, and beinif probably a soft form ui 

 cho, JO, aa it doea not appear ati a sen ile in other names ol animala. 

 The Horpn cbu-W anu Thoehu /f/-t;hi are not found in tbe aouth. 



Tbe Horjia form cbu suggests that the Mtitrar a«-thti, (.^f/f-tum le r Abor), 

 C. Tan^khal tu-m?, Jtlaring-tune-, Manipuri /m/i'-dony, h hoibu fon*f-kan, 

 Marara tok-/7M, contain the wame root in a dental furm (as iu the Dooria 

 Chutia mf-di ior mf"-li, pt-Vi ki',). It undery:oea a similar raitig-o of varia- 

 tion in some of iti other applications. 



The I'lberkhad and 5f ikhanang' pi-sbi is explainable as a slender form of 

 the Manyak-Na^i eombinatiwn^ similar to the sp, Bhotian ai-mi. Gerard 

 civea botli pi-la and pii-shi aa Bhntian forms, and if pu-s1ii were g-enuine 

 Bbotian it would be hard to resist the eonclu^ion that. pi-f(hi ia also Bho- 

 tian, hosvever mneb it would perplex the enquiry us to ihe directionti in 

 which this rtanbiuntion had been propa;i:iifjeii. T)»e Dravirian pn-su, 

 pu-chel.a, pu-chcbo, Ivol pu-ai, and Kapwi /I'/'pi-M ' art* examples of the 

 same Voi-^ibfe, aiid it bad also been carrietl to Asonesia, ]>n-so, bu-^i, pi-tasi. 

 A:> i.jeform pu-rfhi does not CHCCur in an^v other voeabuliiry cd' Bhotmnj it 

 may be saiely cons^idered as an exotie Irora Tibei kbad if it is really viisedl 



• In the App. to chap, v. the Pajibtu pislii, pifihik has been displaced 

 Kid e jt red l<a,pwi, and the Kapwi j!(3-pi!*aas Afrieiin. Pisa ma^* how- 

 «?er be ^ii-m., toiop. the Joboka m-aa. The liotuma pi-tjsa k the emue 



