490 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Crawfurd, in his Dissertation to his Malay Dictionary, at page 49, says, that Bar- 



bosa describes the Javanese as trading at Malacca in the beginning of the I5 th cen- 



tury, before the Portuguese conquest. They had, he says, no clothing form the 



waist upwards , and no covering to the head , but dressed their hair in a peculiar 



fashion. 

 Tëlik, to look at attentively or wistfully. To gaze, to espy, to watch. 

 Tel- tel, expressive of laying hold of branches, and swinging form one to another , as 



the monkeys do in the forest. 

 Tëluh, magie. Poisoned by the artifices of incantation. "Whenever a person gets unac- 



countably ill, anything out of the common , they say: Geus di teluh déungan, he has 



been magically poisoned by some one not of his family. 

 Tel uk, a bend in a river. A bay or bend in the coast. An inlet. Etymon , Luk, which 



see. Teluh Betung , the Lampung Bay in the straits of Anjir. 

 Tëlur, the testicles. 

 Témbak, to shoot with a gun. To fire at, to aim at. The acceptation of firing at 



must be modern, since the knowledge of fire-arms, but might have applied formerly 



to shooting with bows and arrows. The m in this and some following words , seems 



of sarae force as the Um used with words beginning with Turn, and Témbak may thus 



be derived from Téwak, to seize, to catch , to lay hold of, and Témbak may thusbe: 



to shoot at with a view of seizing. The w being changed into b after the m for 



the sake of euphony. 

 Témbangan, the air of a song, the tune. Measure of intonation. 

 Tem bek, to dam up the course of a stream of water, so as to form a pond or lake. 



See Tambakan. To stop the course of water. 

 Tëmbing, steep, precipitous, with an acclivity. Probably derived from Nawing , per- 



pendicular, in same manner as Témbak from Téwak. 

 Tem bok, a wall. A wall of brick or stone and mortar. Seems to have a p'arity of 



origin with Tembek , to dam up. In Malay, Marsden, 82, Timbuk , an embankment, 



dyke, rampart. A wall. 

 Témbong, visible , in sight , perceived. To see. Po-ék, to iémbong , it is dark and I 



cannot see. Témbong ii luïmr kayu, sighted from the top of a tree. 

 Témbongkën, to cause to see. To make visible. Ulah di témbongken, do not let it 



be seen. 

 Tëmboro, name of a mountaïn in Sumbawa, from which proceeded, in 1815 , the greatest 



volcanic eruption on record. 

 Tëmëgong, the same as Tumagung or Tumunggung. 

 Tëmën, in earnest. To mean it. Intentional. Temen di gaicé , to work in earnest. 



Temen sia daik vgabedah, do you mean it that you will open out new sawahs. 



Lain temen , it was not intentional. 

 Tëmënan, to work in earnest. To press eagerly for some accomplishment. To bring 



p, man to his hearings. To take up in earnest. 



