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manghar may be equivalent to Um r iu manykal, a green lime just 

 picked, but I do not know if this interpretation will agree with the 

 context. 



M. Devic would like to derive the Malay words tuan and Mai 

 (a title), fron the Persian, while M. Marre, with much reason, 

 points out that a Malay dictionary would be hardly the place for 

 suggestions of this sort. Why does M. Devic fix upon tuan 

 (which he refers to the Persian tuivanisten, to be able ; tuvdna, 

 powerful ; tmvan, force, power ) and leave unnoticed the pronoun ^A 

 ini, this (Persian, ^.1 in, this) ? 



It is not necessary to examine in detail the other words in the 

 list, and the various remarks made about them by both writers. 

 It may be pointed out, however, that the word cJij, which Favre 

 writes balit, is really belit (compare lilif). Ber-jalan dua tiga belit 

 signifies, as M. Devic states, " to take two or three turns in walk- 

 ing," but both he and M. Marre, by following Favre's spelling, 

 give an incorrect idea of the pronunciation of the word. 



Favre's Malay-French dictionary may, no doubt, be supplement- 

 ed by hundreds of words, but they will be gathered probably from 

 colloquial intercourse with Malays, and from books not con- 

 sulted by the E-everend Abbe. The Sajarah Malay u, which is one 

 of the authorities most often quoted by the Abbe Favre, was not 

 likely to furnish M. Devic with much material for new lexicologi- 

 cal notes of value. 



W. E. M. 



