A Vocabulary of Brunei Malay. 
BY 
H. B. Marshall. 
(With notes by J. C. Moulton). 
This list of Brunei Malay words represents the work of several 
years. It was undertaken at the suggestion of Mr. W. H. Lee- 
Warner, then Assistant Resident, and compiled by the author when 
he was travelling throughout the State of Brunei prospecting. 
Mr. I. H. Burkill, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, 
has kindly named the fruits and plants, while Dr. R. Hanitsch and 
Major J. C. Moulton, respectively the late and present Directors 
-of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, are responsible for the identi- 
fications of the shells. 
H. B. Marshall. 
[Mr. H. B. Marshall lias kindly permitted me to annotate his 
interesting vocabulary. He tells me it was intended to be a list 
of words peculiar to Brunei. But in addition to the parallels 
mentioned by Mr. Marshall, I have found a great number of words 
identical with those used by Sarawak Malays. In some the origin 
is obviously Dayak, while others have parallel words in the Malay 
Peninsula, very close if not identically the same both in form and 
meaning. The residue of true Brunei words, i.e. those without 
any obvious connection with neighbouring dialects is comparatively 
small. 
The letter ‘ S ’ after a word indicates that it is also used in 
that form and sense in Sarawak; the letter ‘W’ that it is given 
in Wilkinson’s Malay Dictionary. I have relegated to foot-notes 
any suggestions as to parallels in Sarawak and Malay Peninsula 
Malay, and as to possible derivation from other languages. Out 
of the 505 words given by Mr. Marshall, about 35 per cent are 
now without the letter ‘ S ’ or ‘ W ’ or a foot-note. These are, so 
far as I know, true Brunei words for which parallels and possible 
derivations are still to be sought. Xo doubt this number can be 
still further reduced without much difficulty. On the other hand 
there are undoubtedly many more peculiar Brunei words to be 
recorded. 
Mr. H. S. Haynes published in this Journal (Xo. 34, 1900, 
pp. 39-48) a list of 295 Brunei words, of which 93 are given by 
Mr. Marshall. Mr. Lee-Warner lias recently supplied a list of 33 
words, of which 24, new to this vocabulary and not given by Mr. 
Haynes, have now been incorporated. The letter a immediately 
•Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc., No. 83, 1921. 
