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product of Java. Maeliyan, C, 563 gum, glue, any glutinous substance exuding from 



trees or plants by incision. 

 Mipit, to cut the first of any growing erop. See Pijnt. 

 Mirasa, to become conscious of, to feel convinced, to have a feeling of. To feel the 



consequences of anything. (From Rasa). 

 Mi ring, to lean downwards, or to one side; to incline, to decline; shelving, sloping. The 



crude part of this word appears still to be preserved in the Pacific, as in Tahiti, sun- 



set is called ma-iri te ra , the falling of the Sun. Ellis Polynesian Eesearches vol 1 



page 89. The ma is a very general Polynesian preposition for verbalising a substantive ; and 



the final na is constructive. 

 M ir ing kil, curling up in small folds; shrinking up in curls. Jahil miringkil, malicious- 



ly disposed, as if curling up with malice. 

 Miruha, to rub two sticks together in a peculiar way in order to extract fire. To rub fire 



out of sticks. 

 M i r u n , used in the expression Mirun Seuneuh , to light up a fire. To set on a fire To 



draw a little fuel together and set it alight. 

 Misah, apart, separate, disconnected. 



Misalah, to put out of joint , disjointed. From Salah, wrong. 

 Misan, first cousins, male or female. Massirisi, C. 526, a cousin as if the Polynesians 



had transposed the a and i, for the sake of making their favorite termination in An. 



(The word is derived from Jav. pisan , Bal pesën , at once , one time ; also : very , 



all, altogether. Fr.) 

 Misanan, distant relations, distant cousins. (From Misan). 

 Misti, must, what is absolutely necessary; indispensable , necessary. Liwat ti misti , going 



beyond what is absolutly nescessary. (Jav. Pesti or Pasti £}<3\ m,o3\ Mal. idem). 



M i t ë m b a i , to commence , to make a beginning. 



Mitrah, to make the offering to the officers of themosque, made by every good Mohamme- 



dan , at the labaran or end of the Pwasa month. (At Batavia Pitra , which is to be 



explained by the Hindu custom of making offerings to the ancestors, Pitarah, at new 



year. So at Bali. Mitrah is the verbal form. Fr.) 

 Mo dal, capital, principal, means to trade with. Mudala, C. 550 money, coin. 

 M o d a r , dead , lifeless. It is a coarse word , and conveys an idea of humiliation on the per- 



son so dead. It corresponds to the Malay word Mampus. 



Modol, excrement, faeces. A vulgar word, S 1. 



Modol landak, porcupine excrement- the name of a plant growing on newly felled 



ground. 

 M o g o k , to come to a stand , as a wild animal which is hunted. To face about and show fight, 

 Mogor, to run about after women , especially those of ill fame. 

 Mohal, an insinuating way of making a refusal or denial. A negative expression difficult 



to translate, but which the following examples will elucidate. Perhaps it can most 



frequently be translated- it is not likely. 



