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belazuardi perbuatan orang benua Turki. There is also a 

 heris teterapan, which Wilkinson translates ' a creese with a 

 groove running up the blade ' : but heris terapang means i a 

 creese with a sheath covered with metal/ and in Achinese ter- 

 apan is ' a metal envelope/ Wilkinson is certainly right in 

 his explanation of tump, which must mean ' to dress, plaster, 

 line/ His Dictionary says, "Covering; plastering; lining: 

 giving a surface (of a different material) to anything, as a 

 coat is lined or as a table is covered with green baize:" — T 

 cannot state the authority for his instances. And perhaps 

 teterapan is connected with tump. 



I\op 'the cupola of the howdah of an elephant; Hikayat Marong 

 Mahauangsa Wilkinson. In Achinese khob means "to cover 

 with a dome, a cupola/' And the same passage from the 

 Bustanu s-salatin has dan pintu-nya mengadap ka-istana, dan 

 ■perbuatan pintu-nya itu berkop; di-dtas kop itu batu di-per- 

 buat saperii biram berkelopak dan berkemuncliakkan dari-pada 

 sangga pelinggam" Kop means any kind of c dome, cupola/ 



Bitum. Wilkinson gives this word as meaning only ' elephant/ 

 In the passage quoted under kop, it means ' a mythical snake 

 with a head at both ends/ — a meaning it bears also in Achinese ; 

 a. ring in the form of such a snake being called uncliien turn pa 

 biram. This meaning of the words explains chinehin patah 

 biram, a Malay ' puzzle-ring ? — vide p. 89 "Circumstances of 

 Malay Life " by myself. 



Ganteh. In the folk-tales of Seri Rama and Airang Sulong 

 occurs the lines 



Anjong perak, gemala ganti 

 Beratap tild berdinding kacha. 



For ganti we should read ganteli, which means, 'thick in the 

 centre, of pillars ; barrel-shaped ; round/ On p. 46 of Mr. 

 Wilkinson's Seri Menanti occurs kerbau bungkal ganteli ia-itu 

 bulat ujong tandok-nya, kadang-kadang jatoh bungkal-nya 

 t eta pi ber ganti balek (App. B. 5) and on p. 47 Mungkal 

 ganteli tiang tangga kecliil di-atas di-baicali. These two quota- 

 tions corroborate the meaning given, except that kadang- 

 kadang jatoh bungkal-nya tetapi berganti balek lias been added 

 by some Malay philologist, to whom the real meaning of ganteli 

 was unknown. 



Seri Menanti. The name of the seat of H. H. the Yamtuan of 

 Xegri Sembilan is explained by Malays as a place where the 

 early settlers found rice of the kind called seri awaiting them. 

 I would suggest that it is more probable it is a name reminis- 

 cent of seri menganii (= menanti) the ' waiting-hall ' in the 

 palace of Javanese princes. 



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