532 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Wayah, period, time, moment. Wayah kiwari, at this present moment, at this time of 

 day. Eukeur wayah Jciimaha, about at what time. Wayah also means, fit and proper 

 time or season. Appropriate, suitable. Tachan daik wayah, the fit season lias not 

 yet come. Wayah na bai, it was to be expected; I wil.1 put up witli it; its time had 

 come. Wayah, C. 622, age, time of life. 



"VVayang, a native exhibition of scenic puppets. The exhibition always takes place by 

 lamp-light, and arrangements are so made that the shadow of the puppets is thrown 

 upon a screen of white cloth behind which the Dalang or exhibitor sits and recites 

 some ancient romance of which the puppets are the dramatis personae. Probably de- 

 rived from Wa, C. 634, wind,breeze, and Eyang , divinity, see voce. Thus the wind- 

 god, indicating the transitory nature of the scenic representations. 



Wayang, name of a volcano south of Bandong. 



Wayu, the toddy drawn from the kawung-palm. A word used only by the Badui of 

 south Bantam. Called also Peu-eung. 



Wayu-hyang, a character in the Manék Maya, see Eaffles, vol. 2, Appendix. A great 

 warrior, from the washing of whose body the dog Belang Wayung Hyang was made, 

 vide voce. Wayu, C. 638, air, wind, the air of the body. Hence also Batara Bayu, 

 the God of wind. Has the Javanese Wayang, or scenic representations, got its name 

 from this personage , as the figures shown upon the screen have no reality , but are 

 only shadows , and perhaps thus compared to the air or wind ? 



Wed uk, impenetrable , which cannot be pierced, what no weapon can cut. Invulnerable. 

 Whenever a scoundrel sets up in opposition to Government authority, or makes a 

 rebellion , he always hopes to delude the simple native, and for that purpose pretends 

 to be Weduk or invulnerable, or that no weapon can cut him nor shot wound him, in 

 which he easily succeeds and gets a concourse of people after him. Betuwah in Malay 

 answers to this Weduk. 



W ë d u s , a goat. See E m b é. 



Wéh, alas! 



W ë k ë 1 , persevering , working with energy ; steadfast , resolute. 



Wel, the idiomatic expression for gulping or swallowing greedily. Wel bai ku anjing , the 

 dog gulped it up. Wel bai di paju, he guzzled it up. 



We lang, Persian , Marsden, page 45,piebald, streaked black and white Orai welang , the 

 pie-bald snake; a snake with rings round the body alternately black and white. Very 

 poisonous. 



Wëlas, to rebound, to spring back, to go over again. 



We las, an idiomatic expression in counting between 10 and 20, corresponding to the 

 English teen or Dutch tien. It is also called and pronounced Bias, which see. The 

 word has probably its origin in Welas , to rebound , or rather to go over again , to re- 

 peat , — as when the native had countecl to 10 , he had gone over the fingers of both 

 hands, and to go further, was forced to repeat the operation, which he designated 



