260 A DICTIONARY SÜNDANESE 



Luraayan, a trifle, something better than nothing. Lumayan bai di béré kuilt na, he 

 o-ave me the hicle , which was better than nothing. 



Lumayung, said of fruit which hangs invitingly ripe on trees. 



Lumbrah, with common consent; of one accord. Notorious. "What is usual or customary. 

 Lumbrah batur , what is usual with other people. 



Lumbur, a village , a collection of native houses. The final syllable Bur , poured out , 

 dispersed , would seem to denote the spot from where the people poured out daily to 

 their occupations. The um is constructive , denoting the act of dispersing. Bur in the 

 sense of dispersing or pouring out is heard in many words , as L&bur , melted down 

 as a metal (so that it can be poured out.) Tabur , poured out. Kabur , run away. Ma- 

 bur , run away. Labur , to pour out , to start out- in the Malay of Java. 



This idea may have arisen among a people uniting in villiges for mutual defence, 

 as the natural state of savages would be to live much apart , or every man in his pad- 

 dy field, or where he had the means of getting his subsistance, where they probably 

 lived in a Ranciaon, which see- here and there, as is still the case with some of the 

 ruder tribes on Borneo and Celebes. 



Lumbur , on the above supposition , would be the converse of the malay word Lum- 

 bung , a granary , a Paddy store. The Bung in this sense is very probably heard in 

 the word Bungkus, a parcel , a roll; Bumbung, a bambu for keeping anything in. 

 Kémbung swollen , infiated. Jubung , a circle of mat work set in a bciling pan , to pre- 

 vent the matter boiling over. Bang in these senses being indicative of containing, 

 having capacity, and is again heard in the Sunda Lulumbungan , which probably is the 

 word , now in its simple sense of Lumbuug only retained in Malay , but still indicating 

 in Sunda- a place into which fish collect. 



That savage natives do not often , in the early stages of their existence collect 

 into villages, may be learned from the present state of the ruder parts of Celebes. 

 Captain van der Hart in his , ; Iteize rondom het eiland Celebes 1854" says at Page 

 70 when speaking of the Halfours of the East coast of Celebes — „Their dwellings 

 are made of bambu and wood, and all rest on the top of high posts, elevated above 

 the ground. They are not collected in Kampongs (villages) but every one lives by him- 

 self, scattered over the country, close to their Ladangs (Humahs), and as they have 

 to change these every year , such also is the case with their dwellings". 



Lumého, said of the pulp of a cocoanut which is still soft and young- hardly fit for use. 

 (Cf. Lèlw). 



Lu m pat, to run away, to scamper off, to run hard. (Jav. Mal. Spring; malwmpai, to 

 spring). 



Lumping, a buffaloe hide , streched out and dried for use. 



Lumpuh, lame, crippled with disease , palsied , numb ; having legs swollen with Elephan- 

 tiasis. (Jav. Mal. idem). 



Lu in pui, a small dwarf shurb, with red berries and broad leaf. It is said that when 



