Chinese and Sumerian, стр. 99

SUMERIAN

GEL-DAN, large or long ears: 7962. Vid. ME, PI (BI), and GISH-TUG, MUSH-TUG. (GEL=GISH, GE, ear; DAN, great, large? But of. Chinese tan and tang.)

GE, to write (Safar =SAR, 9. v.). 8756. (Perhaps akin to GAR, GUR, GUR, MUR, to draw, portray, sculpture.)

GE, GIG, night; sunset; dark ; black. Character also read M1; from MIG? cf. MUG zx SU-MUG, to be or become dark, of the sky; to be eclipsed, of the moon and stars (Br. 181). (Aso read GIN, black, C. 7. xii. 30.)

GEM (GEME), GIM, GIN, GE, AM (AM-ME), (a female), a handmaid; a concubine. 11133 ff. (Cf GIN,a male.) CognatewtthGAL (fromGAN), female organ; woman; female. 4 homophone ts GIN, black (salu): C. T. xii. 30: of. UNU-GI(N), ‘the Dark Dwelling ’= Hades, Br. 4783f. (GIN =GAN, KAN, to be dark; sad; written head + black.)

GESH, GISH, GI, MESH (WESH), MISH (WISH), a tree (a trun, as the old character shows); a stick of timber. Det. of wood and wooden objects. (The word 1s probably akin to GISH, straight, upright, male, azd USH = GUSH, to set up, values of the Phallus-character ; a tree being an erect object. See Br. 5019; 5025. Vid. USH.)

GESH, MES, ahero (¢d/u). Ci GUTU, hero; brave; warlike (¢d/u: gardu ; garvradu ; Br. 11280 ff.); GUD, and GUD-GUD, strong; brave (gardu ; garvadu ; Br. 5741 f).

GESH-TIN (with or without Det. GISH, tree), the vine: (2) wine. (Written orig. tree + life; cf D. 372; 402; 160.) Vid. GESH, GISH, tree, supra, and TIN, DIN, male, life; strong drink. Szgu-list, No. 21.

GI (# GI MU or GI NI-SIG, where the second word may be merely Det. of

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CHINESE

tan, tam, te", tang, pendent ears. 10615. tan, tam, té", ears without rim or lobe. 10620. tang, tong, long hanging ears, —a sign of intelligence. 10726.

ki, C. Am. ki, to record; ki shi, to write a narrative; ki-lii, written rules, 922. P. 32 (R. 49). Cf 923.

*hei, hé, he, hak, haik, heih, hék, K. hik, J. koku, black; dark. 3899. O..S kek: P. 862. Asa Phonetic, also mek. — Cf. mu, O. S. muk, evening ; sunset ; dusk. 8065.

ye, yi, yei, ya, A. gia, ja, night. P. 394: yik, tik.

yém, yin, yim, ing, yang, K. im, J. in, the female side of Existence ; the female element or principle in Nature. O..S. gim; P. 764. 13224. yin-hu, J. inko, ‘the female door’=vulva, k‘im, k‘em, kin, J. ken, a wife’s sister. 2028. (2) dark; cloudy; shadow; Hades. Cf. kien, K. k'im, kom, J. kin, ken, black. 1701. yiin, hiien, ngien, ngiie, J. gen, black, dark. 4790. hun, fun, J. kon, dusk, twilight. O..S, gon: P, 476 ; also min: vid. MAN. 5222.

yeh, A. ket, a stake; a post. 13014. ngit, giat, nih (WW. 1081).

yeh, ngit, giat, nieh, the stock or stump ofatree. 8283. WW. 2d.

ngét, wu, ngut, wut, ngwah, wah, J. got-, a stump or trunk of a tree, having no leaves or branches; a sprout (WW.), 12785. Cf. 12088. (ap. ki, tree; wood = GI-SH.)

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k'yt, k’et, kieh, dm. kiat, K. kol, a hero; brave. 1499; cf. 1498.

(ki, as obsolete Fapanese word for wine. ki zs tree and wood in the same language.) shén, shin, sin, A.t‘én, the body; a life, lifetime; chung shén, end of life; ts‘ien shén, a previous life or existence. 9813. Cf also 9865.

yeh, ngit, suckers; sprouts; fresh shoots from an old stump or root. 8383.