COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY. 



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River 



Rivulet 

 Earth 



Land 



Sun 

 Sun 

 Moon 



biteu (Selama Semang-) 



wang- batauh (Semang) 



te (Besisi) 



teh (Perak Semang^) 



teh (Ijoh Semang") 



teh (Selama Semang') 



tei (Patani) 



atei (Rumpin) 



ate' (Endau) 



atei I. Johor) 



te (Senoi) 



te (Tembe) 



teh (Benua) 



teh (Jooroo Semang) 



teh (Kedah Semong) 



^*^tunkat (Endau) 

 tunkat (Johor) 



matbri (Rumpin) 

 matbri (Johor) 



kachik (Kedah Semang) 

 kitchi (Patani) 

 kachil (Benua) 

 g'uchah (Kenering Seman 

 gechai (Perak Semang') 

 giche (Kinta Sakai) 

 kichek (Ijoh Semang) 

 chi (Selama Semang) 



daik (Mon) 



[= water] 



ti (Mon) 

 dey (Khmer) 

 te (Chong) 



t-gnoa (Mon) 

 thngay (Khmer) 



matpri (Mi) 

 matpri (Khmous) 



khe (Khmer) 

 kato (Mon) 

 mechiai (So) 



8-) 

 cachai (Hin) 

 kaosai (Soue) 



16. The words for " Sun "and "moon" deserve a note to themselves. 

 (I.) For the former we find apparently two distinct sets of words: (1) tgnoa 

 (Mon) thgnay (Khmer) and representative forms is other dialects, represented 

 perhaps by the first syllable of the Johor tunkat ; (2) some combination of the 

 root mat '•• eye" ■with some other M^ord, as pri, forest, or K-to, which seems to 

 be identical with the root meaning ' ' moon. " Thus Jooroo and Kedah 

 Semang have mitkatolc. Selaina Semang viekatnr. Ijoh Semang viaktok, 

 etc. (il.) For "moon" we find the last-named root by itself. It is a very 

 wide-spread one: cf old Cliinese gu'af " moon," which appears in modern 

 dialects as " gueh '" &c. but i.- evidenced by the early Japanese loan-word 

 gicatsu or getsu, to which the^e Peninsular forms closely approximate. 



