TRANSLITERATION OF MALAY. 149 
buallet,—the full value of the particle should be shewn, and that 
plantak, plandok and plurw are incorrect and unscholarly. 
Pe is the sign of a verbal noun. I do not know of any Malay 
verb landok, but that the name of the mouse-deer is derived from 
a word haying something to do with rapidity of motion is sufficient- 
ly shewn by the meanings of other words having the same root :—- 
Lanchit and lonchat, to jump, spring. 
Lanchar, quick, direct, fluent. 
Lanchur, to flow, spurt out. 
Lanjut, long, stretching forward. 
Lantak, to strike home, transfix. 
Lanting, to fling. 
Langsong, to proceed direct, &e. 
On the same principle, it is not incorrect to shew, by the in- 
sertion of the vowel before the liquid, the existence of the forgotten 
particle in the first syllable of such words as, bri (be-ri), give; 
blanja (bel-anja), expend; blanga (bel-anga), a cooking pot; trang 
(te-rang), cleared ; trima (te-rima), receive; trus (te-rus), through.* 
* One advantage of inserting the vowel is that the separation of the 
particle from the root renders apparent etymological features which 
might otherwise be unsuspected. Thus, in the examples given above, the 
same root may perhaps be detached in the Malay words for *‘ give” and 
“receive.” 
So the common derivation of delanga and other words having to do 
with heat or burning becomes apparent :— 
Bel-anga, a cooking pot. 
Hangat, hot. 
Hangus, burnt, scorched. 
Hangit, smell of something burning. 
The meaning of van or rang appears to be “ to cut;” it occurs in such 
words as, rantas, to cut a passage through jungle ; ranchong, to whittle to 
a point, ete.; terang, or trang.is “ cleared,’ ‘cut away,’ and therefore 
“clear,” “ plain ;” pa-rang, is ‘“‘the cutter,’ the chopper or jungle-knife 
used in agriculture. 
Us, the root of terus or trus, seems to convey the idea of admission 
or penetration :— 
Terus, through. 
Chelus, admissible. 
Lulus, admissible, permissible. 
Tumbus, pierced, perforated. 
Halus, fine, slender. 
Kurus, thin, &e. 
