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Édég, to shake or swing the legs about while sitting. 



Éh, Eh! aye! Eh ulah, aye d'ont. 



Éhé, to have a stool, to have an occasion of nature. Said of a child. 



Éhéan, to take a wife, to marry. A quaint term. 



Éka, a festival made for the deacl, by killing a buffaloe, or goat, under the iclea that at 



the day of judgment, the dead person, in whose memory the Éka is made, will have 



the animal to ricle on. This is a Mohamedan institution which the Arabs also observe. 

 É k é k , Psittacus , a parroquet ; the bird is only of the size of a thrush. It and the still 



smaller Serénclét are the only two birds of the Parrot tribe in Java. (At Batavia and 



in Javanese bétét, ^(cn^-jasw^). 



Éksél, poor, thin, having no flesh or eatable matter upon it. Said also of water which 



is in a very scanty stream. Buah iyo éksél jas ah oivoh eusian, this fruit is very poor, 



there is no eatable matter about it. Chai na eksel, the water is scanty. 

 Éla, a species of the genus Cardamomum growing wild in the jungle. It is remarkable 



that Éla is the Sanscrit name for the Cardamum of Malabar. (See Wilson s. v. and 



As. Eesearches vol. 11. p. 355. Eld.) 

 Éléh, cowed, worsted in a fight, beaten , overcome. 

 Él enken, to overcome, to worst in conflict; to place in the wrong. 

 Éling, to remember; to have consciousness , to know what one is about. Maka Eling , 



keep your senses about you. 

 E 1 i n o; a n , to cause to remember. 

 Elingkën, to put in mind, to cause to remember. 



Ello, European, an ell. A measure for cloth. The usual ell measure usecl by cloth 

 dealers is the ell of Amsterdam 



Containing English inches 27.079. 



The Netherlands Ell or French metre „ „ „ 39.371. 



and the English Ell. ,, „ „ 45. — 



Elmu, arabic, science, knowledge doctrine, art, artifice, cunning, device; Elmu kitab, 



the doctrine of the Book, (Koran). Sia loba thityn elmu na , you have to many artifices. 

 Eman, often also aspirated Heman , to have an affection for , to feel love or regard for. 

 Embah, a grandfather or grandmother. 

 Embé, a goat. See Wëdus. 



Emboh, a weed in the mountain humahs called also Sayaga and Tésbong. 

 Embohan, to add to , to augment, to increase. 

 Embol, to make appearance, to come in sight. 

 Embul-ëmbul, to come crawling into sight, to show up; Jêtëma to embul-embul? is 



there no appearance of the people. See umbul-umbul. 

 Embun-ëmbun, the fontanella; the soft place on the top of the head of a new-born 



child; the crown of the head. 



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