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the sum total of the numeral system of these dialects is quite 



characteristic in its individuality. 



A similar state of things prevails in regard t > many other 



common words, as the following specimens will suffice to 



show: — 



Cham. Cancho. Rodi. Chreai. Selung. 



Dog : athda. asou. so. so. oiee, aai. 



Melano-Dayak asau comes nearest but the word, though 

 not found in Malay (except in the expression gigi as if, 

 "canine teeth") is very wide spread, e.g. Javanese astt. 



Fowl : mrenuk. men tic. menuc. [ttesl. < " , 



L J {jnaijntMk. 



Compare the Javanese (and almost universal Malayo- 



Polynesian) manulc. 



Tiger : rimong. remong. imong, lemony. 



(The Belung word is different, viz: pannoo, punk, which 

 finds its analogues in aboriginal dialects of the Malay 

 Peninsula, e.g., Tembe' manu (for which see No. 24 of this 

 Journal, p. 17). The Achinese form is rimong like the 

 Cham. I think there is no reason to doubt the identity 

 of the word with the Malay rimau. Possibly the form 

 hariman is a sort of Hobson-Jobson word, that is to say, 

 really the old native Malayan word for "tiger" but 

 twisted into its present form by a fanciful notion that 

 it ought to mean "the beast of Hari" (harimriga, /see 

 Maxwell, Manual of Malay, p. 21). I confess that even 

 Sir William's brilliant scholarship cannot convince me 

 that his Tamil " male lion " derivation is the right one. 



Elephant: limam. eman. ronton. lomon. 



(Selling has gazah, the Malay qujah, a word of Sanskrit 

 origin). Compare the Bulud Opie (Borneo), Javanese 

 and Lampong (Sumatra) limit n : this word, which is not 

 found in Malay or Achinese, is probably derived from 

 lima, the old word for " hand," the application being to 

 the end of the animal's trunk. One of the Sanskrit 

 names for the elephant {haslin) has a similar derivation; 

 and compare also his Latin epithet angvimcnms, "having 

 a serpent for a hand." 



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K. A. Sue, No. 3y, 1902, 



