fiTHN'OLCiOT 01^ tTLB iNOO-PACinc ISLANDS- 



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2. Thfii labial root — found in GVarung'tmly in 'he FilenJpr and rontmct- 

 atl fnrrn At-jii— is tlip prevalent onf on the north bank of" the npner Hra- 

 mnhpytrrt, rtnd in older forms, pralmbly Draviriim (n-bii, um-bii kv.)^ 

 /7/-)Hi Tuyitip: Mwlimi, <?-pu*r, e-puk Al>or-Miri. The Giiro ]»tiee and 

 K i ran ti me mttV Ije th 16 root in ^ImidfrT forms fimiUir Uj the (ivfirung' 

 and ti* the Kondh imi-Ju. It ia found ia the Klnnuti lera-puii, M. An- 

 gami thi-u'u. 



:i, A very- common southern root applied to the hnTr in some dialects 

 and to the M/'rjrt' hi others appetirs to W of Chinese orij^in. Chinese has 

 for firrotv t-*ien K-h., tsin, etn K-)»,, ten, elif^n, dinn kc. in other dialects. 

 KamlHijan hiu> tijij^', (Imiff) Anam t^^n. A hrynil form is more common Ka 

 ton*r, i4iaiiiej<0 son, kii-^ui\<, JJmbii ton^, l^ixdm eliong-; Kmjiwi tlitin, 

 ^am^innf^ lii-chun, Jfutlion, Johoka sjin, Afnhuty-, Tiildnnir I«-han, Teiig"- 

 ttii iD-san, Xofiwtnfr bi-simij. Ansnimi hiis po-si fwp {M. A./w-rhu); 

 iJru Kunii tjfi-i, t.-!a-koi, Khyenfr (hwa^ Deoriu Ch. a-tHf Mikir tJi^.l. 



4. A g'ntturnl root, occurs, for iirrtnv in Khari /tf-khsiba, aitd for itfotu 

 in NaniBau}? doa-khap, Muthun awl .IolH>ka hap. 



Onw. 1. The nld^r Irawndy forms— Knren, Vmna &c., have the (iya- 

 mnjn;' // jn-ef.; the later iSin^^pho, Burnian have tlie Takpa and libo- 

 tiaii m ftref. The Jiunnaii ii>rm has spread U\ the Xipal voewbulnries. 



2. The Mnii-Aiiiim forma are older tlian .my of the Tihutiin. 



3. The Abor prei^erves au archaic and juobably Din virian torm of th» 

 Gyamntr root. 



4. The slender form of k, lu is cliaractfTi^tic of the Karen-Yuma 



r>. The brond form of the ssibilant root eomiHcts the Lau gronp with 

 the XflsTrt. This form him spread to Linihu and Lepdm wliieh have (he 

 Siamese v^wel and not the 3iflgii, PoiisiUy the a form of the root ia 

 Ariati and not Chinese. 



(i. The same word ia apphed to nrronf in one dialect and to bon* in 

 onother. In some dialects both have the same name in Mogiiung' la- 

 aan^ (prop'rly ho/f\t arroH'), 



7. The nuine is freijuentlv compound. 



6. Iron. 



I. The Bh. wr. chap's is a broad fu]l fonn of the f*p. chhyn, 3r!in\'ak 

 iUi, The Ilorpa chu, liy:irimjf :*hoTn (t<n>h. sho-w),havt^ h di.suucl vowel. 

 TlipThoehu sor-ww apptears U) be connected with thr'sc l<»rnis. 



Chinese has the sibilant root tit K-r., lie K-h. (comp. ^Lso sik im K-t 

 Pe K-h.). But the archaic broad TiWtan fonii is more iinmetliutely re- 

 lated to Soy thic forms, t!iu-mar, tu-mur, also tht> mar Jrong-., tuji, tip 

 Yenis,. poi, siiy Jvorwi. The s-r, s-I form of Thochu is prohuhly eonneet- 

 ed with the s-imilar Scythie forms apphed to //vm, scKo, wile, zhilla Tun- 

 pus,, hut more c<»mnionly to jj^oWsory shor, son, sir ifec. The older ap- 

 pMcation of the sihilant root was to si/tvr, mlt kv., the root itst-lf heitm- 

 that for M'hitf, Jrmi wa.s afterwards dl'^tinL^ui^^hed as i!'/^/c/i:-.silvt:r arid 

 silver it^ielf tu-* wAt/f-silver, and this led to the form for Mfver acrjuiriijn- ^ 

 •reneric meaijiny^(w(^fflO' chaj*. v, Fee. U. ( 'hiuf^sc hak kam iC-t,, 



he kin K-h. for iroh i. e. black metal ; and pak kain K-t., pe kiji K-h. ■ 

 tor sihH'r i. e, white metal. Cold is kam, kin, with or witltout the quali- 

 tire ifcllina, 



t^ome other examples in addition to those gpiren in chap, v, may be 



