508 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Tukang ngaput, a tailor. 



Tukang pëdati, a carter, a man who attends a pedati cart. 



ïukang prahu, a boatman. 



Tukang ranj ap, a butcher. A person who kills animals for sale. 



Tukang rëbab, a fiddler, a man who plays on the Rëbab. 



Tukang roti, a baker, a man who makes and sells bread. 



Tukang sapatu, a shoe-maker. 



Tukang sa wali, a person who works a sawah , or irrigated rice-neld. 



Tukang séwa, a renter. A person who rents anything. 



Tukang sëunëuh, a fire-man, a stoker. 



Tukang tem bak, a sportsman , a man who shoots. 



Tukang teulëum, a dyer, a man who dips cloth in dye. A diver. 



Tukang tinun, a weaver, a person who weaves , who is ahvays a woman. 



Tukang usëp, a man who takes fish with a hook. 



Tukang wang, a cashier, a money keeper, a rnoney changer. 



Tukang warung, a stallkeeper, a shopkeeper. A huxter. 



Tukang and Tukangan, behind, after, in the rear of. Di tukang kènéh , he is still 

 behind. Tukangan imah, behind the house. 



Tukël, a skein , a hank of thread. Etymon ikal or ukal, to bend; curly. 



Tukung, a fowl naturally without a tail , — which wants the parson's nose. 



Tulag-tolog, going poking about. Sticking your nose into every hole. Strolling about. 



Tulak, to support, to shore up, to prop up. To repel, to repulse, to refuse, to have 

 anything, to do with. 



Tulak-bara, the ballast of a vessel. Bara, C. 461, heavy, weighty; thus the support 

 or prop which is weighty. 



Tulak -tanggul, name of a tree, literally the prop which supports a small dam in a 

 water-course. The tree grows about riversides. 



Tulang, a bone. Tulang tonggong , the back bone. Tulang ngora, young bone, gristle, 

 cartilage. This word tulang does not occur , even modified , in any of the languages 

 of the Pacific, where Hui or Joi, or sorae modification there-of, seem most usual. It 

 may come from Tula, C. 239, inside, within, inner, and the Polynesian ng suffixed, 

 indicating something within , the inner parts , something within the body. In Singhalese 

 the word becomes constructively Tulen, within. 



Tulen, pure, unmixed. Mas tulen, pure gold. Turunan tulen, of unmixed descent, pure 

 breed. 



Tulis, to write; to make characters or figures on paper or other material. To engrave. 

 Tulis sur at , to write a letter. Batu tulis, an inscribed stone, a stone with an inscription 

 on it. As the people of India , the Hindus, appear to have spread so much civilization 

 and knowledge among the Islanders, we may fairly look to them also for the intro- 

 duction of writing. InClough, page 241, is Tulika,& pencil , a painter's brush ; a kind 



