Some Lexicographical Notes, 

 From the Dutch. 



By E. 0. Wixstedt. 



Of late years the Dutch Government has published many of 

 its journals on Medicine and Agriculture in English as well as 

 Dutch, and recently a Year-Book of the Netherlands Bast Indies, 

 1916. It is a pity that cost will probably preclude private societies 

 from following this example, or British students would have a better 

 chance to become acquainted with the abundant fruits of Dutch 

 scholarship. In this paper I propose to invite attention to notes 

 on the derivation and meaning of some Malay words printed in the 

 Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandscli- 

 Indie, uitgegeven door het Koninklijk Instituut. 



Deel LIY , 1902 p. 311-312 contains a note by H. Kern, point- 

 ing out that the Malay word bedil is derived from the Tamil vedil or 

 vediijal ' explosion of gun-powder : ' — cf . vediluppu ' saltpetre ' with 

 the Batak sira bodil ' saltpetre/ For the change from v to o one 

 may compare Belanda from Wolanda. For the change in the 

 accent from the penultimate to the final syllable, one may compare 

 the Malay peti with the Tamil petli, the Malay kedai with the 

 Tamil kadai. Where the paroxytone is retained, as in Tamil, 

 then the indeterminate vowel is not found: — Tamil satai 'meat/ 

 Malay satai, Javanese sate. 



In Deel LV pp. 50-52, Dr. Ph. S. van Konkel 1ms a paper. on 

 the derivation of satai and other Malay words from the Tamil — ■ 

 bagai, ragam, segala, badai, jodo, kodi, patam, meterai. 



On p. 483 Deel LVIII., derde en vierde Aflevering (1905) the 

 same writer has a short paper on " Kuda Semberani" 



Klinkert interpreted the word s&mberani as sem + berani ' fiery, 

 spirited/ Pijnappel derived it from the Sanskrit suwarna ' bright 

 coloured/ for which Eiau-Johore Malay has semburna and Kedah 

 sembaivarna Prof. Kern thought it might be from sauparni or sau- 

 parneya, " offspring of Suparna " one of the names of Garuda. 

 Lexicographers have translated the word ' a mythical breed of 

 horse/ 'winged steed/ "' a Pegasus.' 



Two forms of it are found : s&mberani and semburani. In the 

 Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai (J. E. A. S., S. B. No. 66, p. 32) occur 



Jour. Straits Brancn R. A. Soc, No. 78. 



