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A DICT10NARY SUNDANESE 



= Puliun or Pulion, which in Malay means a tree. Our Sunda word with Pëm — - 

 before, and an after tbe word makes Pempuhunan, that which answers for a tree, 

 and is thus emblematic of the future paddy sterns. 

 Pëndak, met, encountered, jumped with. 

 P ë n d ë m , to bury in the earth , to secrete by burying. To throw down into a hole in 



the ground. To thrust into any place out of sight. 

 Pëndëng, to shut off by an enclosure, to fence off. A division in a house forming a 



room or rooms. 

 Pëndëutan, to shut up, to close, to block up. Chai na geus di pendeut, the water 



has been shut off. Pendeutan lawang na , shut the door. 

 Pending, an ornamented plate of gold or ril ver, embossed with various devices , and 



forming the clasp of a belt or girdle worn mostly by women, round the waist, the 



pending or clasp being placed right in front. 

 Pëndok, a silver or gold kris sheath , made to pass over the sheath of wood. 

 Pëng'ék, holding the nose shut with the fingers, pinching the nose so as not to be able 



to smell. 

 Pëngging, viz Katu Pëngging, see Andaya ning Rat. 

 Pëngki, a shallow wattled bambu basket, two of which are suspended, one to each end 



of a pole , and carried across the shoulder for the purpose of removing earth or any 



other objects. 

 Péngkolan, a bend, a turn, especially in a watercourse, or in a road. 

 Pëngpëk, to stop up, to shut up , as a sluicegate in a canal, or a hole in a fence etc. 

 Péngpélangan, the inner side of the thighs. 



Pénna, a European's pen for writing; a pen made of a goose quill. 

 Pënta, the same as ménta, to ask. Assumes this form after the preposition di. Di 



pcnla to di béré ', when askeci for, it was not given. 

 Pen tang, to stretch out a fresh hide with pieces of stick in order to dry it. To cut 



a fresh hide in strips for making rope and hanging the same out in the sun to dry, 



stretched from tree to tree. To distend ; to stretch out. To tie up a man who is to 



be fioo-o-ed to a frame work, so that he cannot move. 

 Pen til, small sprouts setting for fruit. Any small fruit when first forming from the 



fiower. The nipples of a woman's breast. 

 Pënyakit or Pan y aki t, sickness , disease. Penyalrit bongsor , the small pox. Penya- 



kit muriang, the fever. 

 Péot, shrivelled up, gone down as a swelling ; very lean and poor; nothing but skin and bone. 

 Pëpanting, a kind of wasp. 



Pë pan tér, a small worm or grub which attacks and eats the tender leaves of growing paddy. 

 Pëparëm, any medicinal warm or pungent preparation rubbed on the body externally. 

 Pépéd, to cut and collect stray heads of paddy which have been broken or injured, and 



cannot be reaped with the straw to tie up in the usual way. 



