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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1907.
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The mixing of the sexes in the roots of the terms for describing human beings is common to all languages (e. g., the modern English, "girl ") and Mr. Man has supplied me with a valuable table of words denoting generically tribal and family connections and showing how they are differentiated sexually. ENGLISH. C. N. Ou.
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S.P. a Nicobarese târil pâeh pai
paigül pôh parent : yang yang
chia child Dis ken-yüm60 ken-yum ken-yum pin-ies
kõit kuan kỹan toan
koan kön To these'l, in order to differentiate the male and female of each kind must be added, the appropriate words for the sexes as given above in the Table of Roots in the Six Dialects Compared.
II. Table of Comparative Boots and Words.
General Terms. ENGLISH, NICOBARESE.
MALAYAN ABORIGINE. Indo-Carxes. back (the) ok, ko (20)
kiah, kiah
cha' breasts
da täb, toh, tosh toh
tak nâng
Da (Burmese) eye mât, mat mat, mot
mat, mot meät, mēt
main foot chuk
jok, iuk, yohk, diokn jaung, chung, chan jiung, jung, jong
| giong chang, chong,
chean cho's Eáng sinh
young lih, drin hair hodk, yok
so', ssk, sok, sogk, suk sak, sok, sonk,
Bhok
tiok kü, ju hand ti, tai
t'hi, the, ta
ti, tay, toa, day tang, tong, tein (both hand and finger) ting (hand and finger)
nòi (h. and f.) head kõi
kòi, koi, koe
tovi, toni kui
kui, kay, kay month fång
pang, ban
paing hain, hein foâ, wa
mieng mduh, mesh, moanh moh, muh, mah
muh, monh mahun mo, ma
mo, mai, mas This word seems to combine in itself the roota kovi, malo, yw, female. Rroopt to nic, konyüm, and pinisi.
Both ti and tai denoto the band and the finger: 4 In Nicobarone, however, this word in, I think, il, breath, woul, lifo, plus profix, ma, mo.
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