A grammar and dictionary of the Malay language : with a preliminary ...

56 A GKAMMAll Of THE MALAY LANGUAGE.
karauH kakiinda andak dibunoh ulili Misa Tanduraman; he kissed
and embraced lier, sayiug, O ray soul^ bfipl}', by tlie aid of the
gods, you may agaiu meet your elder brother, perhaps meet him
and perhaps uot, for ]\Iisa Tanduraman desires that your
brother sliould be shmi, Bahawa, sasuuggidiiia, sakalian ini
dai-ipada ahdi dan barkambali iya kapadaila ; trulj', all is from
god, and all returns to him. Jika paduka kakanda grangan
maliat rupa tuwanku ini, nischaya lupalali, grangan makan dan
minum, dan tidor ; malayinkan chahaya tuwanku padaatina;
itu, dan dipandang-pandang pada matana; if his highness should
see but the sight of my mistress, assuredly he would forget to
eat, to drink, and to sleep ; her light alone would enter his heart
and be visible to his eyes. Maka uritaiia, baganda barestrikan
putri Bongsu, kunuu, maka iya parbuwat sabuwah nagri barnama
Prabajaya, maka baganda ditinggalkan akan estrina,
kunun, di nagri itu, maka iya pulang mangad-ap ayanda bonda
baganda ; the story goes that the prince, after having wedded the
princess Bongsu, built by supernatural skill a city called Pra-
bajaya, and there leaving his wife, he returned into the presence
of their highnesses his father and mother.
Rayatna b.lrkat-i, tiyada barbilaug ;
Nagriua ramai tiyada kajialang.
His subjects were by hundreds of thcnisauds;—countless;
His kingdom without measure.
CONJUNCTIONS.
The principal Malay conjunctions are dan, and; atawa, or;
tatapi, abbreviated tapi, but; jika, jikalau, kalau, or kalu, if;
mlilayinkan, except ; sapaya, in order that ; and sapurti, as.
Dan is evidently the Javanese word of the same sound, but
more generally in that language written lau. Supaya and
sapurti are equally Javanese as Malay. Atawa and tatapi are
Sanskrit, The remaining conjunctions are exclusively native.
Malayinkan is literally a causal verb of which the radical
word is layin, other, or different, and the word literally rendered
means, to make different. How so clumsy a word came
to be converted into a conjunction, it is hard to say. "With the
conjunctions, ought, I think, to be included a particle of