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A VOCABULARY OF BRUNEI MALAY. 
after the number denotes them. Mr. C. N. Maxwell has kindly 
allowed me to make use of a list of Brunei Malay words compiled 
by him at Limbang in 1893. Out of 138 words in this list I 
have added 23 to Mr. Marshall’s vocabulary, which are not given 
by Mr. Haynes; they are denoted by the letter b immediately after 
the number. 
In annotating this list I must acknowledge valuable advice 
and assistance received from Mr. H. B. Crocker of the Sarawak 
Civil Service]. 
J. C. Moulton. 
Singapore, 1st February, 1921. 
1. 
Aga. 
S. 
Bring, conduct, go. Aga tali = “ Off 
with you then.” 
2. 
Agan. 
s. w. 
Mati beragan to die naturally of old age 
and not from any specific disease or 
by reason of accident. 
3. 
Ajai. 
The chin. 
4. 
Akan. 
Used to form the transitive verb : — 
surat atu sudah ku-terima akan; 
jangku binasa akan; turun akan. 
5. 
Akun. 
s. 
To agree = mengaku. 
6. 
Alai. 
Mengalai, the playing of music and 
dancing = meronggeng. 
7. 
Alang. 
w. 
The projecting platform in the bows of 
a sailing pakarangan. 
1. In Sarawak = “draw near to,” “approach," “go to," not “bring" 
or ‘ ‘ conduct. ’ ’ 
2. Mati beragan “death without sign of death; death which resembles 
life” (W.) Meragan in Sarawak. 
3. R. S. Douglas gives jaan, ja and daali as the Kayan, Kenyali and 
Kalabit words respectively for “chin" ( Sarawak Museum Journal, 
Vol. I, No. 4, pp. 84-85, 1911). 
4. The Malay transitive suffix -lean. Apparently one of the many Brunei 
words which have a long o prefixed to them, e.g. arnun insitead 
of the ordinary mun, which is used commonly in Sarawak for- 
“if." 
5. “To admit" rather than “to agree" in Sarawak, where mengalcu 
is also used for the same, perhaps more commonly. The Da yak 
has the same word for “admit" in the sense of “confess,” viz. 
alcu or ngalcu. 
7. In a translation by Sir Stamford Raffles of the more important 
passages of the Malacca Maritime Codes ( Journ . Soy. As. Soc. Str. 
Br., No. 3, pp. 62-84, 1879), there is the following passage under 
the heading “The Division of a Prahu": — 
“The Alang’ muka (the place before the Nakhoda’s Cabin) 
is appropriated for the Tukang tengali, Tukang-kanan, and 
Tukang-kiri. If any of the Crew go there they shall be punished 
with three stripes.” 
The general meaning of alang in Malay is “across" or “at 
right angles to anything,” hence the specalized use for it in the 
above passage and in Brunei Malay as the “space across the fore- 
part of the ship." 
Jour. Straits Branch. 
