ON fhe ROOTS IN THE MALAY LANGUAGE, 
PROM iH DUTCH 
OF. 
J. PUN GPP ew 
— ap SCE I 
In the present flourishing condition of philological study on 
scientific principles, one can scarcely marvel at the tact that 
the Indo-Germanic or Aryan family should have appropriated 
to itself the lion’s share of eeneral attention, but, that there 
should still be any uncertainty regarding its prac tical relation- 
ship to the br: anches descended from other stocks, is quite in- 
excusable. Although we do not, at the present day, take what 
may be called a bird’s-eye view of these languages as was 
formerly done, and find that, on the contrary, each one of them 
now enjoys its own peculiar share of notice bestowed upon it 
by some one or other, there is, nevertheless, in respect both of 
the number of students and of their manner of procedure, 
much still left to be desired, since the subject does not always 
receive the full justice to which it is entitled. Perhaps there 
would be no harm done by giving an example to illustrate 
how other languages, independent of the Indo-Germanic, can 
be made to supply even more particles towards the building up 
of our science than have hitherto been collected. To this end 
we have, as specialists, selected from the particular province 
of our research “the form of Malay words previous to their ex- 
tension in meaning through the addition of CPO 
* «Qver de Wortel woorden in de Maleische taal,” a paper read by Dr. J. 
PIJNAPPEL ip Section 5 2 Polynésien ne, of the Oriental Congress held at Ley- 
den in September, 188: 
