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122 yau 攸 123 ye 爺
jraw
jreah
HONG KONG PLACE NAMES
Meaning or Remarks Alternative to ngau (54).
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Grandfather, i.e., the grand-father king of the mountain, an important genius loci. See wong-ye (120). For some reason this word suffers transformation into yi, jrih, jri (125), nai nray (49) nei nrey (53), lai, Iray (27), lei, Irey (31, 38) and ngai, ngray (54) which makes it appear possible that this is a Chinese adaptation of an aboriginal word.
124 yeung jreonq
Sometimes interchangeable with mong (46), but in other cases can only mean 'village' and may be the Yao179 word yong. See ye (122).
I = jci
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125 yi 宜二 jrih 營盤
126 ying-pun jrenqpruunn
127 ying 應 jeng
128 yiu 窯 jriw
Barracks. The places where this name occurs all appear to be on the route by which the Taipo pearls were convoyed to Castle Peak. In none of them was there a fortified place in the Ts'ing77 dynasty. See (77) and (3). See yan (121).
Sometimes occurs where there is no kiln, nor tradition of one; and in those cases may be...