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Sëuri, to laugh , to smile. Seuri bai jélema na, the man laughed. 



Sëusëuh, to wash , especially as clothes. To clean by washing. Jamang sia hidu di 

 éeuseuh, you must wash your jacket. 



Sëusëup, to sup up. To drink as an animal directly with the head and mouth. Said 

 also of a man, when he puts his head down to drink from the water, as it naturally 

 lies in a well or river. 



Sëusëupan, a place to sup at, a drink-hole. All thvoughout the country are found 

 Senseupans or drink - holes , where animals greedily drink, supposed from the water 

 containing some saline matter or gas, but such taste is often imperceptible to man. 



Sëusëurian, smiling, grinning, laughing. See Sëuri. 



Sëusëut, with difficulty, attended with trouble. Barely managed. Seuseut meunang , 

 obtained with difficulty. It was all I could do to get it. Seuseut nahér duik di ala , 

 it was with great difficulty that I took it. 



S e u w ë u h , child , offspring , — a refined expression. Séngyang seuweuh , the offspring of a se'ng- 

 yang, or heathen god. The word occurs as name of a part of the river Chinang- 

 ëuntëung on Jasinga. Suwa , C. 755, from Suklia , joy, enjoyment; the young of any 

 animal. Sa, C. 742, increase, prosperity. Su, C. 768, voce Soma , to bear young. 



Séwa, hire, rent. Séwa, C. 764, to serve. Séwd, C. 764, service, servitude; worship, 

 homage. 



Sé waken, to let out on hire, to rent out. 



Séwang, each , individually. Siji séwang , one each. Sa/ieatik séicang , every one a little 



Séwot, enraged, in a passion. Making a strenuous effort to do anything. 



Séwu, a thousand, the same as Sarêbu. $éwu is probably derived from Sa, Saha, with, 

 by means of. E with, confounded , confused, and would thus mean a confusion, from 

 the immensity of the number to an ignorant people trying to form an idea of nura- 

 bers. Gunung Séwu, the Thousand mountains, a long ridge of hills running north 

 and south on the Bolang estate in the assistant residency of Buitenzorg. In counting 

 Chinese cash Séwu expresses a value of forty Dutch doits. See Samas, Salawé. 



Séwuh or Sa-éwuh, overcome with confusion. Embarrassed. 



Shéch, Arabic, a title assumed by most Arabs in Java; a sheik , a leader. Maesden 

 in voce Shekh or Sheikh, page 200, gives an elderly and respectable man ; an Arabian 

 chief whose influence arises from age and experience. 



Si, a partiele prefixed to proper names, or to a name by which some one is distinguished. 

 It is used as a denomination for a person of low degree, or rather of no rank at all, 

 and may thus not improbably be the short way of expressing the following word Sia, 

 thou , as used towards an inferior, or towards a child. Thus we have Si Jaman, 

 Si Hamat, Si Sariman for ordinrry villagers. It is also put before almost any 

 word either substantive or adjective, by which it is wished to denote some quality of 

 a person as Si go blok, the stupid fellow, Si Jangkung, the tall fellow, Si Kuda, the 

 horse chap,perhaps from the fellow having stolen a horse, Si En dog, the eggchap, 



