Picture-Writing of the American Indians / Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822

by Garrick Mallery

w resembles the Chinese, cuneiform, and Egyptian emblem for heaven. Akkadian u. It may be compared with the Carian letter u or o.

x, the foot, used evidently as a verb, and resembles the cuneiform du. Probably may be sounded as in Akkadian and used for the passive (du, “come” or “become”).

HITTITE EMBLEMS OF UNCERTAIN SOUND.

Fig. 1081.—Hittite emblems of uncertain sound.

y, a serpent. Occurs in the name of a god.

z, perhaps a monument. It recalls the Cypriote ro.

aa, apparently a monument.

bb, probably the sun (ud or tam).

cc, apparently a house.