bichi, ‘hematite’ is denoted by hieroglyph bicha ‘scorpion’ (Assamese) Rebus: bica ‘stone ore’ (Santali). meḍ ‘body’ Rebus: meḍ ‘iron’ (Ho.) Santali glosses. ![]() meḍ ‘iron’ (Ho.Mu.) I suggest an alternative possibility that the gloss 'med' is an adaptation of the Meluhhan gloss vividly identified in Munda languages. bica 'stone ore' as in: meṛed-bica = 'iron stone ore', in contrast to bali-bica, 'iron sand ore' (Munda). The three ferrous oxide minerals are represented in Meluhha hieroglyphs. Glosses for three mineral ores in Asuri (Meluhha) speech to distinguish among three types of ferrite (iron) ores are: pola (magnetite), gota (laterite), bichi (hematite). See: Catalogs of pola, kuṇṭha, goṭa, bichi native metalwork in Meluhha Indus script hieroglyphs Mirror: Boris Hlebec's research article of 2014, on the origin of ‘copper’ words in some European languages provides a framework for a philological tracking of of other metalwork terms in Indus writing of Meluhha glosses.
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