248 a DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Lëdug. muddy, when said of water; turbid. Thick dust flying about. 



Lé-éh, melted, softened with heat; to become liquid. 



Leg, the idiomatic expression of swallowing , of bolting down the throat. Leg lai di tëurëui 



and he gulped it down his throat. 

 Legah, broad , roomy, extensive, wide. Sawah lëgaïi, an extensive sawah; Enggon na 



lëgah, its hole is wide. 

 Lége, a cockchafer , melolontha vulgaris. The beetle , shape of the onggrêt grub , which see. 

 L 6 g e d u , dirty , muddy. 



Léger, a leager. The Dutch word legger; a water cask. 

 Lëgét, a property of well boiled rice. Adhering together when squeezed in the hand and 



still not clammy: nearly the same as Pulëft. which see. 

 Lëgëudëut., to move in mass, to slip down in a heap, as the side of a hill when satu- 



rated with rain. To move as a crowd of men or an army. 

 Lëglëgan, to swallow, to gulp up. 

 Lëgok, hollow, having a cavity. A hole in the ground. A depression on the surface. A 



deep narrow valley. 

 Lëgon, a small bay or inlet of the sea. Quere? is the English word lagoon this word 



adopted ? 

 Leg uk, a draught of anything to drink, a gulp of water. 

 Lého, snot, mucous matter coming from the nose. 

 Léjét, a variety of gourd. The outer skin or shell is thick, hard and firm , and when 



the soft contents are extractecl, the shell is in very general use for a drinking vessel 



or for holding drinking water. Cucurbita idolatrica. 

 Léko-léko, the bends and recesses of a winding river. 

 Lek oh, strong of ingredients, as tea or cofFee made too strong. Said of a nood or inun- 



dation which comes down in the shape of very muddy water. 

 L é 1 a , a long and thin native brass cannon , generally turning on a pivot. 

 Léla, pleased, content, satisfied, as the natives say, but it is apparently arabic to corres- 



pond with Laliir and Batin , and may thus mean- events or times which are gone by. 



Occurs in the expression Léla, la/dr, batin, an expression which conveys the idea of 



full and unreserved consent and approval. Léla , approved of; or what has occurred 



in former times; Laliir, what is seen , or the present; Batin, what is yet in futurity, 



and thus not known. As if a man gave his consent regarding all that which had gone 



before , what now exists , or may exist hereafter. Past- present and future. (Scr. Lüa , 



play, sport, pastime. Much used in Kawi.) 

 Lëlah, weary, faint, tired from exertion , exhausted. 

 Lélang, an auction , a public outcry. Leylam or Leilao , Portugeese, a public sale. Su- 



rat lélang, a newspaper, literally a written paper about auctions. 

 Lélé, a fish found in swamps or stngnant pools, and also in rivers. It is provided with 



sharp spikes at the end of the fins, near the head, which give painful wounds. Cla- 



rias punctatus. 



