抄録
As formerly Prof. Egami published an article titled "On the beverages and foods of the Hsiungnu (匈奴), Mr. Hotta recently dealt with the same problem in detail also (vide "The Shigaku", Vol.27, No.4, a journal of the Keio University). But owing to the anbiguousness of the Mongolian language and the inaccuracy of the Chinese documents, we are not yet able to understand exactly the substances and their Mongolian names. So some questions remain uncertain still. Accordingly the present author aimed to explain the real meanings of such Mongolian words as "airan", airaq, araxi, esug, cigen, kumys etc., and the identity with the Chinese characters denoting the above mentioned beverages, 酪 lo, 馬酪 ma-lo, 賣 su, 阿児赤 arci, 哈刺赤 haraci, 馬〓子 ma-nai-tzu, 醍醐 ti-hu etc., principally from the philological points of view. The results led us to the correction of the opinions of Mr. Hotta, late Prof. Ramstedt, and Prof. Karlgren. Moreover the author explained the Mongolian words, 'sarχud', 'bisilarγ' and 'bor'.
