ETHSOLOGT OF THE IJTBO -PACIFIC ISIAXUS. 



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This is the common liquid mmc, root. The form loi probuUiy spreiid 

 southward from one Hitnsxlaynii ditileet (Misbmi or Hiii?^|ilio) to the 

 Mttni|juri-Vuui;i voc■al)ulrtl■i^'!^, in which it previLiU, or tVoni a southern 

 diaiect iiurrhwiird. Ah similar jimjiliHeJ thrma mv t'uund in the Vuma 

 grouji and Mm apphed to the Ilor/ leuk und Monhi-tf h'lnit (Kuirii) 

 It may hiive ijuread from this group to Muiii}mri and t!i.-su€« to ihf Ira- 

 wadi and northward. The liciuid element in the name q( t\\e Horse 



1 whatever iU etymolaiyy ^tuiv tokPi* the same form in Kusiit, kalid and 

 Judo koriti, ^orai. The Kambojaa name for the EUphant haa a similar 

 forai iawi-nu, Clioiig Avf-uai, but tins appear.^ to be a dfrivjuive from the 

 Irawadi taAor Bujftdot'. The foixn is j>robably of wejitern Irawncii ori- 

 gin. 



(i.) Anam A-long'-nuk, (Miktr cMonjr) Sak k-ro, Ahom kli-rai, Dm 

 kh.-iiai, Biirmtm k-ywai, k-wye, k-yne, Kafiibujau /v-ni-ft//. Ftoui the 

 Ahora, Sak and Kiimbojan fonu* tho ori;j;:iiial juipejirs ta have bK!n a 

 form of the miise, qu^ihtive Biinilar to («), mi i^c. with the guttural 

 prelii in iibice of the nj^r or t of the north Irawadi (.l iJi, .Mii^Juui). The 

 KamUojau combination j:j mmilar to the Kyau c//fi-la-//v, lu Sec. 11 of 

 ch. V. 1 considered the Kambojan name to Dr.iviriao. It', as 1 now 

 think, it is IIi!ii:i]iiie, the que-stiou ari^ieji whether the Dravirian karau, 

 kuravai Ji> tiot itself 11 imalaic. 



{c.) Namsany,' Ic, Ka^iia .vA/rt-reh, Men /j/z-ren, /7-nrvng", /»-yen. Similar 

 slender tonus occur for the (hHtt in Karen nod Xewnr le, (J, and S. Tau-^- 

 khul re, Anam de; for the Ekphnni in Rambnjan re; tor the Httti in 

 Jlijku Sli-ihmi lt;hj mid Mou let ; niid for the Horfe \n AW^ Burman re. 

 The moditicatiyn heluiig-d to the later iSifaji — Irawadi eurreut. The 

 Idanyuk din^-mi is jierhiips connectfHl wirh these forms. 



3. (111.) [a], Aka, Dophki Mm-duk, Abor W(;(-zekj m^ft-jeg, Midimg", 

 Tablung" tek, iV-isibly tliii^ in an archaic form oF the hcjuid rnasc. wot 

 iiinilar to rak Zfw/, rat Goat., lok Ek.fihmit^ and lak, nak Monhiff, Bub 

 it ia cloiser ttj im archaic tbrmi of t lie deiittil and sibilant jiresHTved ir 

 names for the Tbiir tuk, jik. In tliH lihotian u form of the same root as ap- 

 plied to the Cow linal k i^ prf«erved, ciiuk, 



{b). Teii^oa tyany, .Xogauug* chrujiir, I't^iip^a chang-. Tlji-» is the form 

 of the sil>ilant ro<>t fotmd hi the Bhotiau chaii^jf Gmtj Murmi chyim Tigtr^ 

 Lej>clia tyan Ekpfumt. 



4. (1.) (rt.) Deoria Chutia me, Assam moh, Gara mnt-ma, Khari a* 

 pang. 



(&.) Lirahu :ux-wet (Bunn, wot //w//), Kimnti s^an-wn. 



5. Auam npu, .Siiii;plit> n^fa, .Jili Uini-hii, Lung-khe na, hJiyenfj' nnu, Ku- 

 mi jJrti-noh, pa-no, «i^(-n:i, Karen, Tourj^-fhu/jft-nu, /M/'-OLii. W ith the ex- 

 ception of the Auani ii^iu tUvue funns afijte.ir to be nil variati^in,'; of the 

 north Irawadi nga, wiiich in. ideitticul with the Mauyak furm I'or th*- Ooto. 



Obs. ^'o distinctive root for tlie Jittjfafoc occurfi amiin;rst the v-.u-iou.* 

 aames. They ore the rjameeiubstontive and (pialifive luota that are uhihI 

 for the Goat, Cow &c. Home well marked groups esi-t. Tbn (»atiij;t'tic 

 form, including- the Samkrit and Den^uli, i:^ the archaic Hi miilnic name 

 for the Cow (///rt-chu, mo^su, Wf<-hii, mtt-M kv,). If miy qualitive original- 

 ly diistinguisht'd the liLiilaloe tVom the Cow it bsfi been lost. 



Another g-roup is the lar<^'e iriiwadi one in which the masc, liquid root 

 lias bfien ditFuMO. in the form loi kc. Iroin some ain^'lfc di.ilect. 



A second aad ij mailer Ultrauidlau grou|> preseuU the same root in a 



