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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 moun- tain, an important genius loci. See wong-ye (120). For some reason this word suffers transforma- tion 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 adapta- tion of an aboriginal word.

124 yeung jreonq

Sometimes interchangeable

with mong (46), but in

I = jci

ཚ་

125 yi

宜二

jrih

營盤

126 ying- * *

pun

jrenqpruunn

127 ying 應 jeng 128 yiu 富陶 jriw

other cases can only

mean 'village' and may be the Yao179 word yong. See ye (122).

Barracks. The places where this name occurs all ap- pear 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'ing!77 dynasty. See (77) and (3). See yan (121).

Sometimes occurs where

there is no kiln, nor tra-

dition of one; and in

those cases may be an-