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Malay-Dutch Lexicon compiled at the time at Batavia in 

 Java by M. Leidekker, Minister of the Divine Word, which 

 exhibits more accurately the correct transliteration and 

 meaning of the words than do the works of those 

 authors who have learnt these solely from the pronunciation 

 of the people and not from written texts. The Malay 

 language takes its name from the Malay country, Tana 

 Malaion, the chief town of which is Malacca, which in turn 

 derives its name from the tree malaca or myrobalanus, 

 whence others are accustomed to call this language Malaccic. 



[Here follows a vocabulary of Malay words.* Among 

 these the only familiar words to us in Ceylon are i — 



Behasa 



language 



Behagi 



a portion 



Boemi 



the earth 



Moeka 



the face 



Nagara 



metropolis 



Partama 



first 



Gaza 



elephant 



Oerang 



an animal 



Toehan 



master, lord, which I suppose is the " Tuan " 





that all Malays expect to be addressed by 



Roetan 



which Reland says " is called by us rotting " 



Razja 



king 



Kapala 



head which is like the Greek kephale, as 





Reland notes 



Manusja 



man 



Pagar 



a rampart, palisade, " whenee our een pagger " 



Praho 



a ship, "whence our people have manu- 





factured een praauw " 



* Reland derives " Bengala " from " Penggalan "== emporium.] 



XI. —How it is proposed to treat of the remaining Languages. 



Having said this much concerning the Malay language, 

 which is common to many Eastern islands, I now turn to 

 others. It is by no means my intention to give in this place 

 complete grammars and lexicons of those languages of which 

 I shall treat, but merely to give the reader some specimens 

 of those characters which these people make use of when 



* In the Javanese vocabulary he gives campong, villa^ pagus, trcedium* 



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