1884.] Trade Dialect of the Naqqdsh. 19 
aya mera Katocli, 
pine baitha bather-!, doch. Kdngrd Proverb. 
my friend the Katoch came and sat domi to smoke with the hnbble-bnbble 
in his hands, i, e., did the gentleman and was idle. Said of an idle 
useless person. The Katoch Rajputs were the old ruling class in 
Kangra. 
paper; rikkin = Panj. Hills, likhin, paper: gaukha = ghazka = kaghaz ; 
Beames, footnote to Elliot, i, 161. 
mouth ; face ; mur = Hindi (Jhansi) head: much = niuchh =: mukh, 
the face; bus, bhiis from blnis karna, Hindi, to masticate. 
eye ; zii-tuun, zi-tini, teg, zu-tingi, tinge, pa-tirni, pa-chirni and tig-da, 
he sees = Panj. Hills tidd, tind, the eyeball and takua, to see ; zii, 
zi, zu (and (?) pa) = Kashm. zii, zih, two ; thus ziitiiun, etc., would 
be the two eyeballs and so on, and pa-^rV-ni {tidd) would also be the 
two eyes; 
tere tidd jalew.! Kdngrd. 
is a common abuse corresponding exactly to our own vulgar expres- 
sion“ blast your eyes.” 
niir = Pers. light. 
qalamddn; zakkir = (as a guess) zakir from Arabic zikar. 
rice ; kondr = Panj. kodra, corn. 
bread ; berets = barach = charb (or chab) reversed, which in the Panj. 
Hills, means any kind of food for a journey ; chab is properly any 
parched grain for food : nang, neg, nigle == Panj. nigalna to swallow. 
disease ; mashilad, mashiran, to die, mashilad, ill, = machila, a mahn- 
gerer; machal Jana is a Panj. idiom for to die, explained as (but?) 
ma + chain a, to go away. 
physician; nabzuwol = nabz-wala, Panj. and Hindi, 
man ; bak, bRve, mak and bak, master, bank, father = banka, Panj. a fine 
man : tog is gut or got (but), Panj. Hills, reversed, a body ; thus, 
mddn ne janaure di gut jandi dikhi, 
I saw an (animal’s body) animal going along, 
mam jandi dikhi gut, 
jane dhi thi, jane put. Kdngrd Proverb. 
I saw a person going along, who knows whether male or female, 
i. e., I saw some one in the distance, but could not distinguish 
who it was. 
teg and tagis would come from tog. 
woman; woin, wany, wan = Panj., hinj and Kash., wdnj, a barren 
woman : kinn is (?) nik-i reversed, Panj., a small woman : sian = 
(?) hian, Panj. Hills, a brave woman; hia, courage; hiau, brave 
man ; hiau, brave woman : beroi = (?) birvi, (fern, of bir, brother,) 
Hindi, a female friend, sister. 
