Anglo-Saxon Hringe Arabic Khatam, maḥbas Babylonian Shemiru, lulimtu? Bohemian, Serbo-Croatian Kruh, prsten Bulgarian Prsten Chinese Pan-chih, chih huan[595] Danish Ring Dutch Ring French Anneau, bague Gaelic (Erse) Fainne, failbeagh German Ring Greek, ancient Δακτύλιος, δακτυλίδιον Greek, modern Δακτὐλιδι Hebrew Tabba’ath, ḥotham Hungarian (Magyar) Gyürü Italian Anello Icelandic Hringr Irish Fainne Japanese Yubi no wa Laos Pawp Mü Latin Anulus, anellus Lithuanian Ziedas Persian Angushtar (ḥaḷḳat) Polish Piercien, krouzek Portuguese Annel Roumanian Inel Russian Koltsó,[596] pérsten[597] Ruthenian (Little Russian) Persten Sanskrit Angulîya, anguli mudra Serbian Prsten Siamese New nang (nang pet) Spanish Sortija, anillo Sumerian MUR (KHAR) Swedish Ring Syriac Tab’â, ḥathmâ Turkish (Osmanli) Yüsük, halqa Welsh Modrwy The following hints as to the proper pronunciation of some of the rare words in the above list have been kindly furnished by Prof. John Dyneley Prince, of Columbia University, who has also supplied several of the names: In _prsten_ (Bulgarian, Bohemian and Serbo-Croatian), the r has a peculiar rolling sound with an inherent vowel; this cannot be correctly reproduced in English spelling. The ci of Polish _piercien_ is pronounced like the Italian ci (chee). Little Russian (Ruthenian) and Russian _persten_ means literally “finger-thing.” In the Lithuanian _ziedas_, the z is pronounced like French j, or our z and azure. The Hungarian gyürü sounds like dyü-rü; it means something rolled. The ṭ in Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac is an explosive t unknown in English; the letter rendered by the sign is a deep, guttural and faucal exhalation. Irish _fainne_ is pronounced fau-in-nye, and the Welsh _bodrwy_ is sounded as bod-roo-ee.