170 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



its use you perceive tliat it also implies exceeding goocl. Imcth na jasah gorêng na, 

 his house was exceedingly bad. Jasah hadé na , exceedingly good. Jasah , used by 

 itself implies — shocking ! very bad ! or perhaps only — „in an extreme degree", which 

 is mostly by implication — >j v ery bad". 



Jataké, name of a tree and its fruit called in Malay Gandaria , mangifera oppositifolia. 

 (The word is certainly Scr. , but Wilson does not mention this meaning sub voce 

 Jdtaka. Fr.) 



Jati, the Teak tree. Tectona grandis. This is the name given to the Teak tree on Java 

 and on other islands of the Archipelago where it occurs. The word seems to be of 

 Sanscrit origin. Jati, C. 209 birth, lineage, race; family. Jatya, C. 210, "wellborn, 

 of good family. In Ceylon Jatya is the name given to what we call caste. This 

 would lead one to suppose that the Teak originally was introduced from India, and 

 brought with it, not its pure and simple Indian name, but received from the Indians 

 who brought it to Java and the Archipelago the appellation of the „Ilig/t caste lüoody 

 Jati also means in Ceylonese , great flowered Jasmine ; mace , nutmegs. 



Jati, divine truth; essence. In this sense , it is very likely a modified meaning of the 

 foregoing word. (Jav. id.) 



Jauh, far, far off, distant, remote. This word has also, most probably, a Sanscrit ori- 

 gin , and may be a modification of a part of the verb Yanaiva to go , which in the 

 imperative is Yawa, go thou. (Mal. id.) 



J a u h k e n , to remove to a distance. 



Jawa, the Eastern portion of the island called by Europeans Java. Jawa extends from 

 Tagal Eastward. A name, doubtless, originally given to the country by the people 

 of India, as they appear to have called all distant countries Yawana, in the sense in 

 which we speak of foreigners generally, or as the ancient Greeks called al strange na- 

 tions Barbaroi. But the name by frequent intercourse, attached itself permanently to 

 the Eastern parts of the present island of Jawa. It very likely has its origin in the 

 same verb Yanaiva mentioned at the word Jauh. Clough at Pages 208 and 571 gi- 

 ves both Jaivana and Jawana , as the name of a vague country distant from India, 

 and as also meaning ƒ o^eigner. The Hindus also applied Jawana to the Greeks and their 

 Javoana Achayarya [Achdrya) is supposed to be Aristotle , the Yawana teacher. Clough 

 Page 571 gives Jawana, a country most probably Bactria, or it may be extended 

 from that colony to Jonia or still further to Greece. By late Hindu writers it is 

 most commonly applied to Arabia. Jawa was originally a general name for all the 

 Eastern Archipelago generally, and chiefly for the Sumatra and Java of the present 

 day. Marco Polo describes them as such, and Ptolemy, the Roman geographer calls 

 them the Jabidii insida', in the second century after Christ. In ancient times, thus, 

 both Sumatra and Java of the present day were known as Jawa ; and Marco Polo , 

 at the close of the 13th century distingnishes them by Jawa Minor, and Java Major 



