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A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE

Ki-tahi, name of a tree, the wood of which has a very fetid odour. Sapresma arborea Name of a creeper with stinking leaf.

Ki-téjé, the wild jungle cinnamon tree. Cinnamomum Javanicum.

Ki-tinggi, a kind of Centipede with black body, but red belly and feet.

Kitri, an ancient right, an inherited right.

Kitu, in that way, kitu éta so is it, so it must be. Kitu kahayang aing such is my desire; Kitu bai hadé, in that way is also good.

Ki-tuwa, name of a shrub, Leea Sambucina, vide Tuwa.

Ki-urat-urat, Pantago Asiatica, name of a ribbed grass resembling similar ones in Europe, grows in mountainous cool situations. Urat means sinew. Called in Malay Kuping manjangan, deer's ears.

Ki-wari, now, at the present moment. Also Ti kiwari.

Kiyas, a separation of man and wife for a short time, with a view to recover rĕpok.

Kiyo, in this way, such. Déngékĕn kiyo parentak na, Listen such are his orders.

Kling, a country on the coast of Coromandel; the coast of Coromandel generally called Kalinga, C. 113 extending from Cuttack to Madras. The people of Kling had great intercourse with the Archipelago before the arrival of Europeans, and by their means formerly, no doubt the produce of these countries reached Europe.

Klir, name of a range of mountains on the western boundary of the territory of Jugjokarta, west of the river Progo. It is thus called after a frontage of limestone rock, in the neighbourhood of the Coffee stores at Sumpĕl, which as seen from the Capital of Jugjo, has the appearance of the Screen, behind which the Wayang is exhibited, called by the Javanese Klir or Kĕlir. Tijdschrift voor Taalkunde, Jaargang 1- afl: 2. The Klir hills were no less a screen in days of old behind which the Brahmins in Bagalen had enshrined themselves.

Klontong, a Chiuese hawker or pedlar.

Koas, a runner which yields a pod containing beans.

Koas Kujang, a large variety of the above.

Kobak, pitch penny, or pitch doit, throwing coin into holes in the ground for a wager.

Kobar, in small squares, a pattern, looking as if disposed in squares.

Kobét, to tear or scratch with the paw, as a cat or tiger does.

Kobokan, a basin or bowl to wash the lingers in at meals; a finger glass.

Kochak, arrogant, self-conceited, boastful, overbearing.

Kochok, to shake a vessel containing a liquid, to shake up in a vessel, as a liquid in a bottle. (Jav. Kochak and Kochok idem.)

Kockolok, to shake up in a vessel, as liquid in a bottle. (Derived from Kochok.)

Kockorkĕn, to let water flow, to cause to flow, as by opening a sluice. Chai gĕus di kochorkĕn ka sawah, the water has been run upon the Sawahs.

Kodali, a bridle for a horse. (Jav. Batav. Kĕndali.)

Kodék, to scrape or scratch with the finger nail.