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word. The word Ngau (54) in local place names is often interchanged with Yau (122) and once with Lau (30). It is possible that this is the word from which the Chinese Yao79 was derived.
The word Pak (63) in some local names interchanges with Pui (76). There was a people called the Pak158 in South China, and Pak (63), Pui (76) and perhaps Pa (60) and Pai (61) may be a version of this name. If these people cultivated salt paddy that would explain the term pak-tin (65).
Many of the village names that make little sense contain two of these elements, e.g. Ma (42) Niu (58); Ma (42) Liu (35) Shui166; Ma (42) Yau181 Tong (98); Pak (63) Ngau (54) Shek (81); Yau180 Ma145 Tei; Pak (63) Tam172 Au (2). These would mean places where, by agreement, the two peoples could meet peaceably to exchange goods, to draw water, etc., or where cultivated land was shared.
The name Shan-lao165, preserved in Chang Wei-yen's134 petition may be that which we have in Sha Lo Tung163 and Sha Lo Wan164. And the name Lung Kwu143 (also Tung Kwu178) and Lung Kwu Tan144 may come from another name for the boat-people mentioned by Mr. Ch'en Hsü-ching135, víz, Lung-hu142 which he says is also pronounced with initial D.
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130 See South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 9 November 1955.
131 The Reverend W. Stott kindly lent me a copy of his unpublished M.A. thesis on the Nanchao Kingdom with extracts from a fuller text of the Man-shu, I believe from the Library of Congress, U.S.A. No text I could obtain in Hong Kong had half as much material.
132 Cham zram (129 Rem.),
133 Chan crann p. 156.
134 Chang Wei-yen Zheonq Wrayjrann ✯✯✯ pp. 138, 157.
135 Ch'en Hsü-ching Crann Zreoighenq pp. 139, 157.
136 Ching crenq p. 156.
137 Hakka xaakghaahx #, possibly a corruption of a Yao79 word for mountain-dwellers. P. 136 and passim.
138 Hoklo xrokloo ## or ##, a name used by Punti160 and Hakka137 speakers to describe users of MinM dialects from Eastern Kwangtung and from Fukien, who pronounce # something like the Hakka pronunciation of. P. 136 and passim.
139 Hsin-an-chih Shannghonn-zi pp. 138, 150.
140 Lam Tsuen Lrammchynn p. 137.
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word. The word Ngau (54) in local place names is often inter- changed with Yau (122) and once with Lau (30). It is possible that this is the word from which the Chinese Yao!79 was derived.
The word Pak (63) in some local names interchanges with Pui (76). There was a people called the Pak158 in South China, and Pak (63), Pui (76) and perhaps Pa (60) and Pai (61) may be a version of this name. If these people cultivated salt paddy that would explain the term pak-tin (65).
Many of the village names that make little sense contain two of these elements, e.g. Ma (42) Niu (58); Ma (42) Liu (35) Shui166; Ma (42) Yau181 Tong (98); Pak (63) Ngau (54) Shek (81); Yau180 Ma145 Tei; Pak (63) Tam172 Au (2). These would mean places where, by agreement, the two peoples could meet peaceably to exchange goods, to draw water, etc., or where cultivated land was shared.
The name Shan-lao165, preserved in Chang Wei-yen's134 petition may be that which we have in Sha Lo Tung163 and Sha Lo Wan164. And the name Lung Kwu143 (also Tung Kwu178) and Lung Kwu Tan144 may come from another name for the boat-people mentioned by Mr. Ch'en Hsü-ching135, víz, Lung-hu142 which he says is also pronounced with initial D.
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130 See South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 9 November 1955. 131 The Reverend W. Stott kindly lent me a copy of his unpublished M.A. thesis on the Nanchao Kingdom with extracts from a fuller text of the Man-shu, I believe from the Library of Congress, U.S.A. No text I could obtain in Hong Kong had half as much material.
132 Cham zram (129 Rem.),
133 Chan crann p. 156.
134 Chang Wei-yen Zheonq Wrayjrann ✯✯✯ pp. 138, 157.
135 Ch'en Hsü-ching Crann Zreoighenq pp. 139, 157.
136 Ching crenq p. 156.
137 Hakka xaakghaahx #, possibly a corruption of a Yaol79 word for mountain-dwellers. P. 136 and passim.
138 Hoklo xrokloo ## or ##, a name used by Punti160 and Hakka137 speakers to describe users of Min M dialects from Eastern Kwangtung and from Fukien, who pronounce #something like the Hakka pronunciation of. P. 136 and passim.
139 Hsin-an-chih Shannghonn-zi
pp. 138, 150.
140 Lam Tsuen Lrammchynn p. 137.
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