Chinese and Sumerian, стр. 100

SUMERIAN

Vegetation), new shoots or fresh growth (it argt, ‘upgoing of greenery’). The character read GI ts the sign for new, fresh, used Phon. and also with ref. to the sense. Etymologically, GI 1s akin to GESH, GISH, tree.

G1(SH) (=GIL), GE (M. 7561), DISH, DIL, TAL, ASH (07 ESH), I (from ID), one. (2) GI, the king (Sarru: Br. 10073).

GE, GA, overflow; abundance; to be full; to fill (Br. 6305), 2g. a vessel (makaéku: 6315: DW); of GAL (IG), fill, be full (S* 42); DE, to water land; to pour a libation; DIR (DIG 2), SIG, SI, to fill.

(2) GE, GI, to turn; return; send or put back; answer. (Cf GUR, to turn, return.) 6308; 6331. Zhe pictogram is a flowering reed (a vartation of the next).

Gl, from GIN (Assyr. gant), a reed; _a writing-reed or style; a rod or staff; shaft of a spear, &c. 2392. Cf 2384. Pictogram: a reed, with flower and leaves. See Sign-list, No. 94.

(2) GI, GIN, GEN, little; young (Br. 2398; 4141); a child (serrz).

(3) GI(N), GEN, to send (Br. 2404; 4899. gi-in ; 6330). Vid. KIN, to send; and cf. GIN, to walk.

(4) GIN, GEN, GE, to make fast or firm; to fix; found; establish; set up (Aunnw). Br. 2390=GIN, Br. 4884; GAL (GAN), S* 149; GA, S* 269.

GIL (from GIN ?) 7 SA-GIL, bolt or

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CHINESE

méng-yeh, ov shéng-yeh, sprouts (vd. MA, MU, tocome forth; SIG, green).

yi, yét, a, yit, yai, K.il, J. it-, i, A. nyit, one; the first. R. 1. yi Zén, the One Man,—‘a common designation of the old kings and modern emperors of China. Legge, Shc Ill. i. IX. 4n. (Amoy chit=tit, dit; Anam nyit= git. Cf also Ostiak it, ei, egid, one. Fuchau eik, Yangchau yit, may be comp. with Cheremiss ik, Vogul aku, Magyar egy, one.) yét, yit, ik, yai, yi, K.il, A.jét, to overflow; full; abundant. 5486. (The Phonetic zs i, yik, yit, yai, yi, K. ik, J. yeki, yaku, A. ik, to pour in more; to increase. Vid. P. 689. Jlé comprises O. S. gig, git, dik, dit.) Of yi, yét, ¢k, to overflow. 13193. (P. 163 a.) hwei, wi, hui, J. kai, ye, to return; send back; go round; answer. 5163. hwei, go back; return; turn back. 5173 (c. Phon. 5163). kwei, kwai, kwi, kai, J. ki, to return; go back; send back; restore. 6419. O..S. gut=gur: P. 1020, kan, kon, k6*, kiie, keifi, kaa, stem of the bamboo; a cane, thin rod; pencil ; pole, &c. 5830. kan, shaft of a spear. 5818=5814. Cf. also 5810; 5812; 5813; 3921; 5994. (king, kin, stalk, stem, of a plant; kéng, ngang, ken, zd., of a flower.) kien, k‘{m, ki", sedge; reeds. 1635. kien, kiafi, K. kon, J. ken, a child. 1686. Am. gin, a young boy; a male child. k‘ien, hyn, k‘en, J. ken, to send. 1746.

kien, kin, ken, cie, K. kon, J. ken, kon, to establish; to found; set up; constttute, &c. 1592.

kien, kin, kian, k‘en, djin, bolt or bar to