506 A DICTIONARY S'UNDANESE 



Tuhan, Lord, as Tuhan Allah, the Lord God. It is the word Tuan aspirated when ap- 

 plied to God. 



Tuhu, right, right-hand. Ka tuhu, to the right. Leungun ti tuhu , the right hand. 



Tuhur, dry, desiccated, not wet. Jalan na tuhu?' , the road is dry. 



Tuhurëun, sun-dry, dried up. Sung'ut Uikureun, my mouth is dry. 



Tuhur ken, to raake dry; to put out in the sun to dry. 



Tuil, to drive down, or drive in, by placing a bit of round wood or a brad- iron upon 

 the object to be driven , and then striking that iron pin, so as to drive in the object 

 further than could be got at with the hammer alone. To piek the teeth. To tease 

 out any matter adhering between the teeth with a tooth-pick. 



Tujah, to throw any pointed instrument; to hurl as a lance. Said of the act of a buffaloe 

 which annoys other buffaloes by goring them about the body, but not coming to a 

 stand-up fight, head to head. 



Tuju, to aim , to sendat, to direct to , to give course to. Tujuh en sar at , to send a letter 

 to any one; to give course to a letter, so that it reaches any person. To aim at, to 

 direct one's course towards. Sasari na Hang têngah na di tuju , usually it is the micl- 

 dle hole which we aim at. 



Tujuh, seven , the number seven. This word may be derived from To , not, and Uju, 

 heard in Tuju, and in the Malay Menuju , to direct towards. To-uju = not tallying, 

 not being in the direction , — as when the native had counted bis fingers up to five, 

 which he called Lima, a hand, and then made an addition from the other hand to 

 make six , Genap , completeness , and had folded down two of the fingers of that same 

 other hand to represent 8 and 9 (see Da la pan and Salapan) two fingers remained stick - 

 ing out which have to represent seven. But they are two and not one and thus do 

 not tally, meunju from Tuju, to point against, or To-uju , do not coincide. The w/w, 

 in the sense of coincidence is heard in the word Mujur , lucky, fortunate, lying 

 lengthwise with , and not athwart. The natives have thus counted upwards to six , but 

 in mean time they had also counted backwards to eight by folding down two of the 

 fingers of one hand, or two fingers from the whole ten , which had been named 

 Sapuluh , one collection. This left two fingers to represent One number, the in ter- 

 mediate seven. Now supposing the index finger of the second hand to count for Se- 

 ven, we have still the middle finger left in jeopardy without a use. May this have 

 given rise to the expression in Malay of Jari-antu, the middle finger , literally the ghost- 

 finger, the goblin -finger; or Jari mati , the dead finger , see Crawfurds Malay diction- 

 ai T > P a g e 58. The name for Seven in Javanese and many other Polynesian ton- 

 gues is Pitu , which may be an abbreviation of the Javanese Pituduh, a pointer, an 

 index, that which shows the way. And Tujuh may then be derived from the same 

 word by dropping the initial Pi and converting the D into J, as Jerami in Sunda , 

 paddy straw, becomes Dami in Malay, and Dhami in Javanese. Japit or Têpit in 

 Malay, to squeeze, to jam togetber, becomes Bapit in Sunda. In the language of 



