291 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Aeeow — " Siimpana." This word, or anything like it, has no 

 right to be in the list at all, for the simple reason that the 

 Dyaks never had the thing. Both the thing and word 

 " Panah " are known, only as Malay, or at least as coming 

 somewhere from the sea. Some ten years ago I taught 

 a Dyak lad to make a bow and arrow, and I had to teach 

 him the word for it. It may have been that some Dyak 

 in ignorance trying to remember something he had seen, 

 stumbled out " Sempanah ; " but the whole thing is extra 

 Dyak. The 'only arrow they have is that of the sumpitan, 

 which is not " Damba," as given in the note, but " Dam- 

 bak," or, in some dialects, " Laja." 



Paddle — " Snayong." "Write "Sengaiyoh." A mistake in so 

 common a word is strange. 



Speak— " Sanko." Write " Sangkoh." 



Hot — " Panas." "Panas"is the heat — hot objectively. The 

 feeling of heat is " Angat." "A hot clay" would be " Ari 



pan 



as amai, 



but " I am hot" " Aku ansrat." " Ai angat' 



however, is hot water. 



Nine — " Sembilang." Should bo " Sambilan," as in Malay. 

 " Sembilang" is a poisonous fish. 



There are a few other inaccuracies , but they are evidently 

 clerical errors : as " Mon" for " Moa " ( face ) ; " Pilin" 

 for "Lilin" (wax); " Apai-andar" for " Apai-andan " 

 (star) ; "Chelun" for " Chelum" (black); "Aran," for 

 "Aram" (come along). 



^145 I 



