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Chinese Elements in Turki 579<br />

In the Turk! collectanea of G. Raquette 1 I note the following<br />

Chinese words:<br />

Unsay, celery, from tin ts'ai ~fr ^.<br />

manto, meat-dumpling, from man-Vou f^ g5.<br />

lizd, a Chinese foot (measure), from c'i-tse K. J".<br />

lobo, a long turnip, from lo-po H ^.<br />

jin, a Chinese pound, from tin /p.<br />

A few other remarks on Turki words recorded by Le Coq may<br />

follow here:<br />

ndhal ("ruby") is apparently Persian lal (above, p. 575).<br />

zummurat ("emerald") is not Arabic-Turkish, but Persian (above, p. 519).<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is no reason to question the Persian origin of palas ("cloth, sail"); it<br />

is identical with Persian balds (above, p. 495).<br />

dowa ("hill") is identical with Turkish deve, teve ("camel"); cf. Toung Pao,<br />

1915, p. 21.<br />

yilpis ("snow-leopard") is identical with Mongol irbis ("panther").<br />

1 Eastern Turki Grammar, Mitt. Sem. Or. Spr., 1914, II, pp. 170-232.

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