Chinese and Sumerian

SUMERIAN

NG? = G?), a ‘Great Serpent’ or dragon (wsumgallu). 6852. Cf 334. (2) Met. a sovereign, monarch (2d. sarrat, queen. 6851.) U-SHA(R, G), the new moon (azkaru ; Nannaru). 7857-7860. (Sun or day +growimng plants.)

U-TUG, demon; spirit good or evil, chiefly the latter (w¢wkkw). Like other evil spirits it causes diseases. It haunts wilderness, mountain, the sea, the grave. It may descend into the earth when exorcized. Vid. DW. s.v. utukku. The char. 7s Two-thirds + Ishtar = Two-thirds belong to Ishtar (Allatu), goddess of the Underworld. Vid. G1DIM, GI-GIM. For the char., D. 482 and D. 483.

UZ, from GUZ, a she-goat (enzu). 3707,

U-ZU (from ZU-G ?), flesh; meat (sr; Siru). 4559. Cf. NU(G?) zz NUNU-NE, his flesh (plur.) = hes nearest kin (s¢rSu). 1969. (Z=N.) Ved. s.v. KUSH (GUSH), RUG.

UGA, the raven (arz6u). C. T. xiv. 12.

UNU-GI(N), the Grave; Hades ( pargu; gubruz). 4785-4788. Vid.UN, UNU, a dwelling; and cf. GIN, black (¢a/mu), C. T. xii. 30; KAN, to be darkened; GE-GUN, a grave-mound or barrow. Char. house + great; house + dark (S7G); or house + earth.

URU-DU, copper (ér@). 3878. CT. xii. 14. (ls ér@ a loan from ERI= URU in URU-DU? Cf. our ‘ ore’ =A. Gr, brass; Lat. aes, aeris, ore, esp. copper ; Sanskr. ayas, tron.)

ZA, SI, DAG, stone. Also read NA (=SHA, ZA, 2.2. SHA-G, ZA-G) ; and 1(=NI, NYI). 5223 ff.

147 CHINESE

reptiles (ad ‘insects’ such as scorpions). 2932f. R.142. Cf. also lung, J. ry, the Dragon; met. the Emperor. 7479.

*shok, sok, shuo, so, K. sak, J. saku, soku, new moon. 10176. (Wretten with agrowing-plant symbol + themoon. The new moon ‘waxes’ or grows darly.)

chi, chai, ti, dzi, J. chi, dji, tei, O. S. ti-k, a monster which dwells in the desert, eating fire, and goring the wicked with itsonehorn. 245. R.153. Cf adsosiu, siau, sio, O. S. so-k (P. 380), a demon which haunts mountains and woods, and causes ague and malaria. 4307. WW. (Acc. to WW, the chien-demon, 976, zs called chék tn A moy.)

tui, O. S. tuk, a spirit-being like a bear. 12187. i, O..S. dik (P. 792), strange, queer, monstrous, a ghost. 5505. (Ku wén suggests a creature of the desert, Vd. Chalfant.)

ku, O. S. kot (P. 103), a2 old word for @ ram or ewe ; a sheep, esp. the dlackheaded Chth-li sort, 6226. (Edkins, P. 103, says ‘goat’.)

zou, yuk, nyuk, ngiik, ngiu, J. shiku, niku, flesh: meat. 5665. R.130 (niok). ku-zou, bones and flesh=farents or brothers.

wu, u, 0, O..S. ok, ravens, crows, and all Corvinae. 12721. P. 680: ok; tok. *yin, yim, ing, K. im, J.in, O..S. gin, gim (P. 764), dark; shadow; the Shades, Hades. WW.; 13224. yin-kien, the Dark House, the Nether World, Hades.

t‘ou, K. t'u, an ore like pure copper, from

Persia. 11445 (WW.). O.S. du (P. 580). tung, dung, J. dd, copper; brass, 12285.

zah, zih, zi, si (sz), A. t'ak, stone. 1 other dtalects shak, shek, shi, sik, K. sok, J.seki, djaku. 9964. R.112. (From zhak, dak, P. 140: Edkzns.)