320 A DICTXONARY SUNDANESE 



Nyaring, awake, not asleep ; with the eyes open. On the watch. 



N y a r u , disguised, clothed otherwise than usual in order not to be recognized. 



Nyata or niyata, manifest, clear, evident, conspicuous. Nyata, C. 215 , known, appre- 



hended , understood. (Set. jnyata, known. See nyana). 

 N y a t u , to eat. To eat into or wear away. Nyatu kejo, to eat boiled rice. Nyatu gula 

 titipan , to eat sugar which has been entrusted to one^ care ; to break one's engagements ; 

 to violate trust reposed in one. To violate a woman who has been entrusted to our care. 

 Huntu panggilingan nyatuan , the teeth of the mill are wearing away. (The vulgar word 

 for to eat.) 

 Nyawa, life , soul , the breath of life. This word occurs in Jampés , and is most probably 

 the same as Nya , C. 215, with the constructive wa added to it; wisdom, knowledge ; 

 one of the appellations of Buddha. Séngyang wisésa huriping nyawa , Sengyang wisésa 

 the cherisher of wisdom, or the one who causes the soul to live. (Wa is no con- 

 structive partiele , but belongs to the root , which there seems to be little doubt to be 

 Set. jiwa, life. F rom jnyana , jnyata, corrupted we saw nyana and nyüta; somewhat 

 similarly, but not quite analogous, nyawa might be from jiwa. Compare nydla, Mal. 

 to jwdla , Set. flame. Fr.) 

 N y a w a h , to work a sawah ; to plant rice on irrigated land. 

 N y e b i t , to encroach upon the property or territory of another ; to go beyond our own 



proper limits. To appropriate slyly what does not rightly belong to us. 

 N y é y a g , to snap as a dog. (Bat. idem.) 

 N y ë k ë 1 , to hold , to have charge of. See Chelcel. 



Nyela-bumi, a direction difFering from the cardinal points. Not pointing due East , 

 West , North or South , but to some intermediate direction , as S. W., N. E. &c. Imah 

 na nyèla-bumi , bis house is not in a cardinal direction , — which is thought improper 

 and unlucky. The ridge poles of all native houses are or ought to run East and 

 West. (Qild Set., ihe timber of a door frame; a transverse beam, or a beara or stone 

 placed across the top of a post or pillar. Erom gild might come nyéla!? Fr.) 

 Nyëlap, inserted, stuck in between something else. Lost by being mixed with other 



matters. 

 N y ë 1 é k é , to shove oneself into some opening where the body can hardly pass. To 



creep or crawl into a small opening. 

 Nyëlësëp, to creep quietly and slyly into any place. To introducé oneself slyly. 

 N y ë m b a h , to go down upon the knees, to salute a superior ; to cower down and salute. 

 To make obeisance. (Jav. Mal. sembah, idem. Sembah liyang , to adore the deity. A 

 faultive reading or pronouncing is sumba/i , the same u is improperly found in the name 

 of the island Sumbawa, in Dutch even written Soembawa , which is Semlawa from Set. 

 Sambhawa , origin ; the a is shortened to e by the influence of the nasal sound , and 

 by the accent being on the following syllalbe. Fr.) 

 N y ë m p i t , to embezzle ; to steal what is entrusted to one. 



