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442 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Séréd, to trail along the ground. To lug or drag along the ground. 



Sérédan, a sledge , a contrivance for dragging anything along the ground. 



Sërëg, fitting stifly or close into a hole or case. Jammed fast. Fitting so close in a 

 hole , that it has to be forced or driven in. 



Séréh, lemon grass. A sweet scented grass used to boil with curry stuff. Andropogon 

 Schaenanthum. 



Sërénkën, to surrender; to give or hand over, to transfer. 



Sërëp or di sërëp-sërëp, to investigate slyly, to gain private information. To try 

 to find out quietly , by gaining private information. 



Sëret, said of food which will not pass down the throat, unless with the help of a little 

 water. Sticking in the throat. 



Sërëud, to sting as a wasp. A sting. 



Seri, the protectress of the rice fields. A mystic name for paddy. Ceres! Clough , page 

 779, gives Sri, from Sri, to serve, to worship , and the vowel made long — the god- 

 dess Lakshmi, the deity of plenty and prosperity; fortune, prosperity. There is also 

 a form of incantation in which the following words occur — Seri, Kala, Baya, 

 Pati, Hurip, which respectively mean East, South, West, North , and the Earth, 

 and which are in sorae way supposed to be connected with the week of five days , 

 and correspond to the days, each for each, in following order, Man is, Pa hing, 

 Pon, Wagé, Kali won, — see the various words for further information. In Bali 

 the people have still small constructions amongst the sawahs, and by the side of the 

 roads, dedicated to Sri, the consort of Siwa. Passers-by are careful always to strew 

 a few grains of rice in such constructions , if they happen to have any with them. 

 Friederich, Bat. Trans. vol. 22, page 33/34. 



Seri Wan ad i, the primative rice brought to Java, and thought to have come from 

 Mësir or Egypt. — Seri, paddy, Ceres. — Wana, C. 621, a forest , a wood, 

 a grove. — Di, C. 273, milk coagulated by means of an acid. Thus coagulated milk 

 of the forests — from the rice having been originally planted in a piece of forest cleared 

 for the purpose. 



Sërih, quits , even, in a contest or struggle. Neither winning nor overcome. 



Sérip, Arabic, a sherif, a nobleman , especially a descendant of Mahomet. 



Sërit, a thin piece of wood inserted in a joist to holcl the joining firm , and even together. 

 A serit is usually inserted with the axle which fixes immoveable in a pedaty wheel. 

 The partial filling up of the hole in any handle, so that the blade may be firmly set. 



Se'ro, a kind of otter, Lutra Leptonyx, found about the mountain streams. 



Séro, fishing stakes and nets set in the sea near the shore. 



Sérong, aslew , at an angle, not straight forward. Oblique. Prevaricating, not doing 



what is right. 

 Sërta, together and along with, with. Sarttha, C. 728, Sa for SaJta, with, arttha, wealth, 

 meahing a company of traders, a caravan. Multitude in general. Of like meaning. 



