486 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



somc tbing without top, point or crest; the boundless ocean. Or it may be the same 

 Ta negative, and Si of Sima, C. 741, boundary, limit, bank, shore. The Ma being 

 constructive. See Sisi. Thus again something „without limit or bank. 1 ' The Sunda 

 people have , however , adhered to the word Laat for sea , whieh see , and whicli 

 is also of Sanscrit origin , though the name of so common an object. Tasik would 

 appear also to be Malay. Marsden, page 64, gives: „Tasek, a sea, inland sea or 

 great lake; a large piece of water.'" Ceawfurd, at page 184, gives:,, Tasi/c , the sea, 

 the ocean; a great lake or inland sea". m 



Tasma, Persian chasmah, spectacles, glasses for the eyes. 



Tata, manners, address, conduct in company. Due respect to superiors. Perhaps from 

 Tatha, C. 219, so, thus, in like manner. To ni/aho di tata, he does not know how 

 to conduct himself. He is ill-mannered. 



Tataban, planks for putting round a corpse in the grave. 



Tatabéan, making compliments. Offering the greeting called Tabé. 



Tatabëuhan, musical instruments which are struck as gongs, drums and the like. 



Tatag, to hack and score the bark of a tree in order that the gummy matter may flow out. 



Tatah, a chisel, a carpenter's tooi. Di tatah , or tatahan, tochisel, to cut with a chisel. 

 To enchase. To cut ornaments on precious metals. 



Tatajuran, plantations. Fruit-trees planted expressly by man. 



Ta tal, a chip of wood. Anything chipped off. 



Tatalén, a quarter of a guilder or 25 doits. Also the silver coin which is ƒ 1, and 

 thus has a value of 30 doits or more. Tatalén is a word derived from Tali, a rope, 

 by duplicating the first syllable and adding an, which following the vowel i becomes 

 én. The word occurring in this shape in Sunda confirms Crawfurd's note to Tali, 

 who after stating that in Malay it means \ of a Spanish dollar, says: — „ It is proba- 

 ble that Tali is derived from Tali, a rope, and has reference to the practice of filing 

 a certain number of small coins on a string, which, judging by the hole in the centre 

 of all ancient Javanese coins , appears to have prevailed in the Archipelago as well 

 as in China." 



Tataman, small black ants, somewhat smaller than the true Taman. It bites very 

 fiercely when trod amongst , but the pain soon goes off. 



Tatangga, neighbour, neighbouring. People whose steps to their houses, Tangga , are 

 near our own steps. All the houses of the natives are reached by mounting steps. 

 Tangga for steps is Malay , not Sunda. The Sunda people call the steps and landing 

 place before a house door Jodog , and the steps or ladder of this Jodog are called 

 Tarajé. The etymon of Tatangga is therefore borrowed , or has become obsolete. 

 The word is still retained in the compound form of Imah tangga. See Tangga. 



Tatanggalan, the first 15 days of the moon are so called, but cease with full moon. 



Tatarub, a hut. A temporary shed, when out in the forest, made to pass the night in. 



Tataruhan, to wager, to stake, to bet. To put down a stake. 



Tatu, to tattoo. To mark the body by pricking and rubbing in some black colouring 

 matter. 



