174 A DICTIONAEY SUNDANESE 



Mr. Frieclerich supposes our Sunda word Jélëina to be a corruption, so as to snit 

 Polynesian organs , of the word Janma which is Sanscrit also , and means- Birth , pro- 

 duction , according to Wilsons Sanscrit Dictionary. Calcutta 1819. 



Je leng, flung away, knocked away, pitched off, ass by the violence of wind, of a stream 

 of water, or said of any object which rebounds and strikes against another. Get 

 along! Be off! 



Jëler, name of a small fish in the rivers, 3 or 4 inches long. It has no scales but 

 5 cyrrhi or beards about the mouth. Cobitis Hasseltii. 



Jëlig, an idiomatic expression of hopping or jumping. Jêlig bai turun , he carae down 

 with a hop. 



Jëling'ër, active, stirring about. Said of man or beast, who is full of energy and stirs 

 about. In good health- well. 



Jëlot, dropping out, not as a liquid, but as any hard substance, as a tooth out of the 

 head, a plug or nail out of a hole &c. 



Jëmjëm. the holy well called Zëmzëm in the mosque at Mecca. 



Jëmblung, pot-bellied. A man with a large paunch. (Jav. idem.) 



Jénari, the period just before dawn. Very early in the morning before daybreak. 



Jënat, the late, — said of a person who is dead. Jénat na chdur kula, my late brother. 

 Jënat na Démang , the Demang (who is now dead). Jënnat, in Marsden Page 105 



Paradise , in Arabic Jënnat , as gone to Paradise. (Jav. idem. Arab. 'jj,~>. Jarnat, garden, 



paradise.) 

 Jen dr al, European- a General- a Governor General. 

 Jënëng, title, honorary designation. Name of honour. Dl bêré jënëng , they gave him 



a title. (Jav. Balin. To stand in honour, to govern. Fr.) 

 Jëngkang, to set the legs astride or apart. To open the legs. (Jav. To be in danger 



to fall hindwards.) 

 Jéngkol, name of a tree and its fruit. Inga Bigamina. The fruit is a concatenation of 



large round beans in a black pod. The natives are very fond of it, though it is stin- 

 king stuff and is apt to give them severe fits of strangury. 

 Jéngkolan, suffering from strangury in consequence of eating Jéngkol. 

 Jëpit, jammed between, nipped, pinched. Evidently clerived from Apit which Crawfurd 



says is Sanscrit, close, side by side, pressed or squeezed between two bodies. (Jav. 



Mal. Batav. idem.) 

 Jëpit and J ë p i t a n , nippers , pincers , blacksmith's tongs. 



Jërami, Paddy straw. The straw from which the grain has been cut off. (See Jami.) 

 Jërih, feeling hurt or sore at getting a smaller portion or allowance than other people. 



(Jav. Bat. Jërih or Jrih , is to be afraicl.) 

 Jero, deep, profound. Dl jëro, within , inside. Jëro corresponds to the Malay word 



Dalem , and implies Inner in the sense of refined or accomplished. 



Basa jëro , refined or far- fetched language. 



