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Note on the Tribal Name Mes (Mech)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1935

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References

page 145 note 1 JRAS. 1929, pp. 851–3, 869–70.

page 145 note 2 Linguistic Survey of India, vol. iii, pt. ii, p. 1.

page 145 note 3 Op. cit., p. 36.

page 145 note 4 Hodgson, , Miscellaneous Essays relating to Indian Subjects, vol. i, p. 72Google Scholar, note, writes “Mécch”, i.e. Mêch, with long vowel quantity.

page 145 note 5 For ma here as representing an original mi, compare Rûngchhênbûng ma-nâ “man” for a probable original mâ(-nâ) in agreement with Rai mîn (< mî-n), Thâmi , Tibetan , etc. See JRAS. 1933, p. 850, n. 1.

page 145 note 6 Hodgson, , op. cit., vol. i, p. 181Google Scholar. The writer also has been given this form as against Khambu (= Kūlung) mîs-sî of the Linguistic Survey (vol. iii, pt. i, p. 411), in which the first s is doubtless due merely to the use of a conjunct consonant in the Nepâli spelling ( for ).