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mother; tlientlh, mank, jari, see “father.” 
father, old ; ddddnr, doddur = dada, grandfather, as also do probably 
thyatha and thenthi (mother) : thawana = Hindi (Jhansi) daii, old : 
jara, jari = jad, jada, Pers. (from Arab.) a grandfather, grand¬ 
mother; tsuda, old, = suda, old man, Panj. from (?) Pers. Sudan, 
to mb away : mank, bank = (?) ma-bap. 
daughter ; dilkhach = Pers. dilkash, a darling. 
son ; pntse, pntr = putr: chiinwa is Panj., a darling boy : jade = zada, 
Pers. : pntsakut, daughter may be for “ small or inferior son” ; cf. 
Kash, lakut, little. 
thief ; poshumut = pnshmatta, Panj., a hider, thief : wusagnn = subsagun 
lit., a good omen, but used for a thief as a euphemism. 
Aj uske ghar m.en subsagun gaya, aur usko nihal kar dia. 
To-day a thief (lit., good omen) came to his house and robbed 
everything (lit. made him very rich). 
Subsagun aya tha dar 
Dhan rakhne ko kuchh tha na ghar. Hindi Proverb. 
The thief (good omen) came to the door, and there was no need of 
keeping wealth in the house. 
Chokendaz = (?) surakh-andaz, Pers., house-breaker: kotu is Panj. 
a house-scaler: kodi, theft, and koder = Panj. khodi, a house¬ 
breaker. 
night; krisor and nela would mean dark : channan = Kash. chungun, 
to lie down ; the Tibetan word for night is also nichannan. 
day; zarin-wat, zad, zar = zarrin, golden, bright, also (poet.) the sun, 
Pers.; zarin wat = (?) zarrin waqt, and hence zad and zar : tem- 
kanais Panj., tamkana and damkana, to shine, 
stomach ; didh, deddo are Panj., dhid ; nadikh — doubtfully Panj. nadikh 
hona, to have a painless or easy labour; nadikh ’aurat, a fruitful 
woman or a woman descended from a fruitful stock, 
jewelry ; dijphul, dajphul = Panj. and Hind, daj (= dahej = dahez) -|- 
phul, the dower jewels : dora, dell (cf. mera = mora, teg = tog, 
doch = dechki) = Panj. Hills, the marriage hair ornament worn for 
six months after marriage = Panj. pranda. 
hair ; wal is Hindi bal and Panj. wal. 
hand ; hathna, at = hath. 
water ; ab ; jal, zal, zal and nir speak for themselves. 
Verbs. 
be silent; munn, mun = Hindi muni hona, to be dumb : nithe hohu 
= Urdu idiom niyat sa raho, be quiet, 
to see, see ; tigda, see “ eye” : hok le = (?) dekh le, a mere corruption; 
cf. doch = dechki, mera = mora, etc. 
