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Citation Information
TERMS PREVAILING IN COMPOSITION. 163
2. TERMS PREVAILING IN COMPOSITION.
There are some terms of such frequent occurrence in the composition of geographical names that I have collected them together in the following comparative list. It might have been considerably extended if all the varieties met with in the respective languages had been included; but it was necessary here to limit the collection to such elements only as, more or less modified, are frequently employed in forming the names of the various localities. The languages of isolated aboriginal tribes have been also omitted here, as being too numerous, and at the same time of very limited extent.' .
TOWN. INDIA in general: shâhar or sher; nagri, nâgâr, the latter not unfre-
quently spoken (and spelt by the Europeans) nagger ; pur, pûra, pûram,
phi; pattan, patnam, from the Sanskr. pâttana.
Pânjdb: val, vala.
Southern India: chéri.—Ceylon: nur, nûra.
TIBET : dong (grong).
TURKISTAN : The Persian word shahar is used throughout.
FORT. INDIA in general: gârh, g&rhi, most generally the respective names
are combined with gârh, properly gârh "fort," and rarely ghâr "house;" hisâr; killa, or kalla; kôt, kôttai. Southern India: durg or drug from dûrgam; kôdu.—Ceylon: kôtur.
TIBET : khar; mkhar; tsong (rdzong) ; also khartsong, combined, is used for "fort."
Tt1RKISTAN; Ycirkand: safil. Kdkand: korgan.—Bokhdra: chiém.
VILLAGE, INDIA in general: gala (old form grama, gram); basti. Southern India: üa;
small inhabited gndam, gûdi, or kûdi; padi, pâdu, p tlli, pâti, pédu, pet; idam; kôttam; Place in general. pélli.—Ceylon: gamme, gôdde.
TzBET: dong (grong); yul, generally pronounced yül, also combined dôngyul, yulchér (yul khyer) ; tse ho, a community; in Bhutcin : kyong. TURKISTIN. Yârkand: yis; Kokand: yasi; Bokhdra: kshlag.
' Some instances of these will be found in the general alphabetical list of the names; and some special vocabularies will be added later to the ethnographical volume.
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