Chinese and Sumerian

SUMERIAN

(4) PESH, (BISH, PISH), blossom ; bloom; flower ; efflorescence (of palm). (arum,; hbhbdu. Cf. PA-D, aru, artu.) 6929; 6932; 6940.

PESH, pregnant; to be with child: 8098.

PIL (BIL), BI, to burn; to blaze or flare up. 4567; 4575.

PIL-LUD (BIL-LUD), PIL-LUDU, laws, statutes ; regarded as Divine commands. The character rs stylus + God (ff. Exod. xxxi. 18). 56409.

PIR, a man-at-arms (?). 8141.

PI-SAN, a receptacle for storing things ; e.g. a box of wood, an earthenware jar, a clay coffer, a corn-bin or granary (Assyr. loan-word pisannu). 5955.

PI-SAN, box, coffer, chest, corn-bin, &c. (PI = PI-N, BIN? ¢ A-PIN, container ; receptacle.)

PIG (BIG), weak; ill. (PIG = PING, nasalizing the G.) 11867 ff. (PIG, BIG : SIG, SIG:: BAR : SAR.)

PISH (BISH ; from an older BASH ?), a wild boar (Rumegzru). Vid. KISH, the other value of the character. (Assyr. loan-word piazu, swine, hog, seems to be a Trilt. imitation of BAZ = BASH.)

PUR(BUR),a value of the Water-symbol ; BURA-NUNU, Great River (the Luphrates). BUR=DUR, bubbling up, bursting forth, or gushing out,of water-springs and rivers (labéku ; of. “n-b-k, in Heb. 0 '53), Springs of the sea; and tabdku, to pour out)

Read SIG; g.v,

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CHINESE

pei, pi, bi, K. pi, J. bi, mi, strong, 8799. O..S. pit, R. 154. pieh, pi, the luxuriance of plants in

flower. 9171. P. 138 (pit). Adso read pei.

pei, pul, pwi, K. pe, the bud of a flower. 8812. P. 389 (bi-t).

Pi, pui, pwi, pai, pei, piei, K. pe, J. hai (pai), he (pe), A. foui, fi, a foetus; an embryo; pi-t'ai, a pregnant womb. 9072. P. 138 (pit = pis).

pi, pét, Am. pit, K. pil, A. tét, fiery; blazing. 8999.

fa-lii, C. fat-lut, laws and statutes.

7548.

3366;

pin, ping, a soldier; a weapon; warlike. 9279. (Finalr =n; cf. sun, grandson = SUR.) (Perhaps bowman; vid. BAN.)

swan, san, siin, son, K. J. san, a box; a basket. 10379; cf 10381.

Siang, sOng, siong, a box; a chest; a granary. 4253.

hsien, syn, Am. sian, a small storehouse for grain; a granary. 4468; WW. S.u, sien.

fei, pi, fi, bamboo baskets. 3481. P.451: pi-t.

pén, pun, b6, dust-basket; hod; grainbin. 8849.—p‘én, pun, bd, béng,]. bon, basin, bowl, tub, pot. 8850.

pu, fu, K. p‘o, sick; weak. 9488. O.S. po-k, P. 322.

ping, pang, pin, bing, J. bid, hei (pei), disease; sickness; weak; ill. 9300.

pa, po, from pa-t (mot pa-k: P. 86), a wild boar (Sfz 1. ii. XIV. 1; ved. Legge's note). Cf. Fap. buta, swine.

fei, fét, pui, fu, K. pul, J. fut-, to bubble up; to boil; of streams, &c. 3490. Pe 155:

fou, fu, K. pu, J. bu, bubbles on water (fou-ngou). P.389 bu-t. Mame of a river im St-ch'uen.

pi, pyt, pet, pu, bi, K. pil, A. tét, the bubbling of water. 9013.

pi, pét, Am. pit, A. tét, bubbling water,