524 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



the very best. Dangdanan nana utama , its construction is perfect in all its parts. 

 Utama beunang ngabantuan, all possible help lias been afforcled. See Nista. Uttama, 

 C. 75, excellent, chief, best, first, principal. 



Utara, north, see also Kaler. Any violent gale of wind, a tempest, — probably from the 

 north-west raonsoon being the periodical season of wind and rain. Katarajang utara , 

 overtaken by a tempest. Utura, C. 75, the north. Uttara, C. 76, the north. 



Utas, to cut down small jungle. To cut a way or path through a tangled forest. To 

 make a tracé for a boundary line or sign of demarcation. 



Utas, a string of beads , a necklace. A piece of netting generally a couple of fathoms 

 long, and one fathom broad, used when several are joined together, to encircle game 

 in the forest, or fish in water. 



Utun, a prince of nobleman of Pajajaran. The term is used in Pantuns referring to the 

 nobles of Pajajaran, where such individuals are generally called Si-utu?i , and are 

 generally described as adventurers in quest ofa wife , or independent petty government. 



Utus, as di utus, to send on an embassy. A message sent by a royal personage. 



Utusan, an ambassador. A royal messenger. An embassy, a u.ission. 



Uyab, to shake up, to shake out, so as to disentangle part of the contents. Eta julcut 

 kotor jigantep kudu di uyab, that grass is very dirty, you must shake it up. Di 

 uyaban menglcé, we will shake it up (and get out the dirt or objectionable matter). 



Uyah, salt. Probably derived from U, which in many languages of the Pacific is a 

 woman's teat , mille , and is heard in the Sunda Susu , which see. It is also apparently 

 the etj'mon in Buah, fruit, and may thus imply something round, having form , grow- 

 ing spontaneously. Yah is probably originally ivater. It still occurs as Yéh , water 

 in Bali, Crawfurd , and Bah, an inundation in Malay, as heard in sawah. It may 

 thus imply: the f ruit of water. Banyu, Javanese, water, seems an inversion of these 

 derivatives, and may then have originally meant: sea or salt water, which in that 

 sense was dropped for La-ud, laut, salt water. Bah is retained in Sunda in Kumbah, 

 to wash , and in the first parts of Walungan and Walura?i , which both meanaravine, 

 a water-course in the face of a hill. 



Uyang, a petty title given apparently mostly out of compliment to an elderly person. But 

 it is also acquired by birth and is below Mas. Derived from Nguyang , to have got 

 by half begging. 



Va-as, said when a pleasurable feeling is cansed by seeing some one or something 

 which reminds us of what we ourselves possess, but which, for the moment, is out of 

 our reach. A happy or pleasing remembrance or emotion regarding something which 



