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Rh Édég, to shake or swing the legs about while sitting.

Éh, Eh! aye! Éh ulah, aye d'ont.

Éhé, to have a stool, to have an occasion of nature. Said of a child.

Éhéan, to take a wife, to marry. A quaint term.

Éka, a festival made for the dead, by killing a buffalo, or goat, under the idea that at the day of judgment, the dead person, in whose memory the Éka is made, will have the animal to ride on. This is a Mohamedan institution which the Arabs also observe.

Ékék, Psittacus, a parroquet; the bird is only of the size of a thrush. It and the still smaller Seréndét are the only two birds of the Parrot tribe in Java. (At Batavia and in Javanese bétét, ).

Éksél, poor, thin, having no flesh or eatable matter upon it. Said also of water which is in a very scanty stream. Buah iyo éksél jasah owoh ěusian, this fruit is very poor, there is no eatable matter about it. Chai na eksel, the water is scanty. Éla, a species of the genus Cardamoraum growing wild in the jungle. It is remarkable that Éla is the Sanscrit name for the Cardamum of Malabar. (See Wilson s. v. and As. Researches vol. 11. p. 355. Elá.)

Éléh, cowed, worsted in a fight, beaten, overcome.

Éléhkěn, to overcome, to worst in conflict; to place in the wrong.

Éling, to remember; to have consciousness, to know what one is about. Maka Eling, keep your senses about you.

Élingan, to cause to remember.

Élingkěn, to put in mind, to cause to remember.

Éllo, European, an ell. A measure for cloth. The usual ell measure used by cloth dealers is the ell of Amsterdam

Élmu, arabic, science, knowledge doctrine, art, artifice, cunning, device; Élmu kitab, the doctrine of the Book, (Koran). Sia loba tèuyn elmu na, you have to many artifices.

Éman, often also aspirated Heman, to have an affection for, to feel love or regard for. Embah, a grandfather or grandmother.

Embé, a goat. See Wědus.

Emboh, a weed in the mountain humahs called also Sayaga and Tésbong.

Émbohan, to add to, to augment, to increase.

Embol, to make appearance, to come in sight.

Embul-ěmbul, to come crawling into sight, to show up; Jélěma to embul-embul? is there no appearance of the people. See umbul-umbul.

Embun-ěmbun, the fontanella; the soft place on the top of the head of a new-born child; the crown of the head.