Chinese and Sumerian

SUMERIAN LINEAR SCRIPT

58 (continued) “4 |

1601

DAM- TAB, concubine (Br llll7 €:

=)

DAM spouse: sen (ore or less

used as a noe! Character” ue Chinese.)

SHESH, SIS, brother (D8; BI67

Baa):

2. Read U- ae , U-RIN Grin qua/); GIN, CT x ;

GUL, hostile; evil. Pict: eye+dog

(IL melas 29;

pas, the fH Ger Oe innin 5. abo rel AG Ne, Pict: head, eye,and neck Cf no.bbinfra

KA, mouth, reac GUG, GU, speak, speech. Mo ied from no.62. (-=h DI95

e-symbol; see p.7F.BIL,

BI MU Cer xii, 8), 1Z,USGIZ,”

tob Pictogram oy rebar fe “the Firedrill” ) C eeaey DS2)

Rung: dung, Benge do,a oxiie” dom = Sumerian D

oui cid (10.3). The char

ieee pose, 7s used phon-

uggeste

Cf perhaps also the following: anne’ tung, the middle OS dom

ti, te, tei, ti-t, younger brother 5 (wei shu-chi tzu fi ye, “a thong tied, knot after knot )

ce cet aude Brant eng, hiung, ke anon king, P198, ida) ]

kin, kim,J.kin, kon, metal; gold (4s)- Cf. Jap. ko ae yellow i meet oul 167.

KU, kwik, kék,kuk, P594a, hostile- looking. Cf Shiwo wen k‘Uen shi-mao, “dogs looking”, te. with UL intenk; “eyeing

something. (_B.):

shau, shou, su, siu, head; chief; front; beginning. shok, Sok, R185; - Japanese Saki, the Front

k‘ou, kau, ku; kak, kok, kit, Bate Ca" 245, mouth; speech. RS H

yok, yilt, yiie, viet, to speak, R73 (gug, gud, mud). (F)) (Neckom. asin ©2,and head. inverted or opened, cf Gudeas form. For the small dlaéritic line in the second character, vid. nos. 38, 39,40.)

fu, fo, hwi, hwo, Fire (4k); fire; flame; to burn. R86. (Zower ate Uf of p prone fg. omitted, 2 anal Gf, however; te Meas old, Porn, afuh | wen, or ornamental char.)