3QQ A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Payung, an umbrella, a parasol. 



Payungan, to screen with an umbrella, as a state umbrella held over a great man. To 

 liold an umbrella over the bier on which a dead person is being carried to the grave. 

 Payus, (difficult to translate). It indicates certain transactions between three parties, as if 

 A owes B, and B owes C. A is ordered to play direct to C which is called Payus. 

 If a man has two pieces of land or sawah on each side of a third bit , and the third 

 is coveted to form one compact whole, that is also called Payus. 



Péchak, one ej'ed; blind of one eye. 



Pëchat and Pëchatan, to loosen cattle from work, from the plough or cart. 



Pëchat-sawad, literally, loosening the yoke band, viz indicating about 9 o'clock A. M. 

 year when the cattle are released from ploughing. 



Pëchëklik, dearth of food, famine. Musim p e oh e klik , the season of dearth , occurs every 

 year during the few months previous to cutting the new erop of paddy. 



Pech ing, a slip of bambu, or bit of stick, with a piece of rag or bit of cotton , which 

 is soaked in urine, tied round the end of it; or a little hair of the human head stuck 

 in a cleft at the top. These sticks so prepared are stuck in round about a humah 

 or paddy plantation, under the idea that where they stand, no wild swine will pass. 



Pech uk, a large web-footed water bird, with long neck and of black colour. 



Pëehut, a whip. 



Pechutan, to whip, to drive by whipping. 



Pëda, a small sea-fish , generally about four inches long, preserved in brine (like herring) 

 and much carried inland. It is the Kcmbuncj fish so preserved. 



Pédah, for the reason that, seeing that; in order to give pleasure, to make matters easy. 

 Jalan gedé di hadêan oya pédah na , when the great road is made , it can easily be 

 travelled over, it will facilitate communication. Pédah sia to bogah ayeunah sia di 

 bêré, seeing that }'ou have not got any, I will now give you some, I will make 

 matters easy by now gïving you some. 



Pëdang, a sword. The etymon of this word appears to be Dang , which, however, does 

 not occur simply in Sunda, and perhaps means curved, bent; it is heard in the word 

 Nyungkaddvg , curved like a scimetar. In the Malay of Batavia and in Javanese, 

 Daiigdang is the name of a tall cylindrical copper rice pot, called in Sunda Sé-éng, 

 and conveys fully the meaning of something curved in circle. 



Pëdati, a cart, a buffaloe cart. 



Pëdës, pepper, common black pepper, Piper nigrum. Of a peppery taste. 



Pëdës putih, white pepper, which is only black pepper blanched. 



Pëgat, broken , as a string; snapped asunder, as a rope. Dissevered. Divorced. See 

 pepegatan. 



Pégo, inarticulate in speech. Speaking indistinctly. 



Pëjël, stiff and firm; adhesive and bad to cut; said of earth which resists the cuts of a 

 pachul. Said of stiff clay which sticks to the pachul when worked amongst. 



