Chinese and Sumerian

SUMERIAN

RA (from RAG = LAG; g.w.), to go,

walk, come (a/@ku). 4871. (Cognate: RI, to bring? 2555.) RA, to, into, unto (ava). 6365. PP.

(S¢v. coming or going to. . .).

(2) RA, RAG, to flood, overflow, inundate, esp. with heavy rain (rafdcu) ; a flood, inundation (v7¢u ; réhzltz). Br 6361 3 16273.

(3) RA, to seize; to grasp (akdzu ; cabatu). (RAG; of. LAG, to plunder ;

TUG, to seize; DAB, DIB, zd.; ZI,

ZIG, id.) 6353; 6363. Cognate with

RI(G), DI, TE, TI, to seize, take: 7. 2.

(4) RA, to dwell or settle in; to cast or lay down; to make one’s abode or settle somewhere; to put on (majesty, splendour, &c.) (aidbu,; rami). 6355; 6362. Cognate: RI, rami, 2573? (RAG = RIG,)

(5) RA, to smite, strike, break, smash, wound (magdcu). (RAG; cf SIG, TAG, to strike.) Br. 6359 f. To beat, crush out, thrash grain (rapdsz $a stim); RAG, threshing of grain (ripsu sa sim); GISH-GAR SHERAG, a threshing-wain (nxarpasu). (MAR = GAR; C. 7. xii. 18.) Vad. MAR, GAR, wheeled vehicle; SHE, SHUG, corn. 6372.

RAB zz RAB-GAMME, RAB-GAMME-GUR, avd RAB-GAMMEA, evil spirits or demons mentioned in Bab. exorcisms (/abartum,; abkazu ; labagu). Br. 4246-4248. RCT. p.4f. Cf. perhaps RABI-TA, @ value of the desert-char., explained lands or plains (matdt) ; Lit, ‘demon’s land’ ? vid, DA,

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CEUINESE

8998 ; DUR

pi, pei, K. pi, J. hi (pi), A. bi, to gush out, as water from a spring, 8927; 2d. 8928 (and name of a river in Flonan). $922 (pi, pit, pil) 2s Phonetic in both.

piao, piu, J. hu (pu), bu, water flowing, 9113. O.S. put.

lai, J. rai, to come. O.S. lak (P. 409). 6679. luk, liok, lu, to move; to walk. 7382. P.482 lok. Cf 7365; 7383; 7374; 7001 (li, lik, lok).

: 791 pit. (pet = BUR; tét=

lou, lao, lau, K. ro, J. rd, a flood; to overflow. O..S. lok (P. 811). 6803. A great rain; or the overflow which it produces. (WW. p. 508.) Cf. 6796.

liu, liau, K. ryo, yo, J. ry6, rd, to grasp; to seize. O..S. lok (P.811). 7044.

lioh, 16k, liok, liah, K. yak, J. ryaku, A. lok, to seize. 7564. lioh, 16k; to rob, take by force; to flog (cf 2/7. lik, to strike). 7566. lioh, lék, to take by force: to throw off; to lay down (zed. sq.). 7567.

lok, laai, lo, la, lak, K. rak, J. raku, to fall; to settle down; to put down or on; a settlement or abode; to ‘put

up’ at. 7329.

lik, Am. lék, li, to strike. 6996. O.S. lak (P. 978). With R. chariot instead of hand, lik, lek, li, to crush under wheels (WW.). 7002 = 69332 lik, li, 2a.

li, lei, O. S. lap, lip (P. 724), a weird beast, a bogy, elf, or the like. 6895With R. reptile, li, chi, mi, lie, tsz, a young dragon, as carved at entrances to palaces and temples. 1973. With R. demon, a mountain elf, with a man’s face and a beast’s body. 1974.