Malay, Achinese, French, and English vocabulary. With a concise Malay grammar

1882·23.9 MB·English

by  A J W. Bikkers

MALAY, ACHINESE,
FRENCH, AND
ENGLISH
VOCABULARY. WITH
A CONCISE
MALAY...
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PREFACE.
This book contains Vocabularies of four lan-
guages, viz. Malay, Achinese, French, and
English; so arranged that each language in
turn takes the lead in the alphabetical arrange-
ment. It presents a Vocabulary of the dialect
of Achin for the first time to the English
people. The authority for these Achinese
words is Arriens, a well-known Dutch Orien-
talist. The relations subsistinii: l)etween the
Dutch and the Achinese give the former
peculiar facilities for becoming intimately
acquainted with the language of their doughty
opponents; and, ss these Lists testify, the
Dutch have not been slow to avail themselves
of their opportunities.
The Malay equivalents for all the xVchinese
words are given; and from these it will be
seen that Achinese is merely a dialect of the
widely-diffused Malay language. In order to
make the book useful to commercial men and
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traders generally, a large number of Malay
words are given for which Achinese equiva-
lents could not be procured. These are, for
the most part, words expressive of common
objects, and special articles of trade. For the
same reason French renderings have been
addedfor the convenience of the large number
of people of that enterprizing nation who are
engaged in trade in the Malay Archipelago.
The Lists are repeated and arranged in
alphabetical order in four ways, each language
in turn having the precedence, 1st the Malay
;
2nd the Achinese 3rd the French; and 4th
;
the English. This enables the book to be used
as a reversed Vocabulary for each of the four
languages. Anyone conversant with one of the
languages can, by this book, instantly find tlie
equivalents in the remaining three, so far, at
least, as those equivalents are known.
A shortGrammar of Malayhas been prefixed
to explain the simplegrammatical constructions
of that very useful language, in the hope that
this will be acceptable to all those who are
interested in the Vocabularies themselves.
With respect to thearrangementof thewords
in the Vocabularies, it need only be remarked
;
PEEFAGB Y
that many words have been intentionally in-
serted more than once under differentspellings
for,asitwas notdeemed expedient tointroduce
the Arabic character into the book, the entryof
words under various methods of transliteration
was best calculated to prevent trouble to those
who might use the Lists. The symbols used in
the book are explained in the first page of the
Grammar and to the explanation there given
;
it need only here be added that the mark ?
indicates that the word to which it is attached
has an interrogative meaning; whereas the
mark (?), in parentheses, implies some doubt
-as to the correctness of the word itself.
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