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506 Tuhan, Lord, as Tuhan Allah, the Lord God. It is the word Tuan aspirated when applied to God.

Tuhu, right, right-hand. Ka tuhu, to the right. Lěungun ti tuhu, the right hand.

Tuhur, dry, desiccated, not wet. Jalan na tuhur, the road is dry.

Tuhurěun, sun-dry, dried up. Sung'ut tukurěun, my mouth is dry.

Tuhurkěn, to make dry; to put out in the sun to dry.

Tuil, to drive down, or drive in, by placing a bit of round wood or a brad iron upon the object to be driven, and then striking that iron pin, so as to drive in the object further than could be got at with the hammer alone. To pick the teeth. To tease out any matter adhering between the teeth with a tooth-pick.

Tujah, to throw any pointed instrument; to hurl as a lance. Said of the act of a buffaloe which annoys other buffaloes by goring them about the body, but not coming to a stand-up fight, head to head.

Tuju, to aim, to send at, to direct to, to give course to. Tujukěn surat, to send a letter to any one; to give course to a letter, so that it reaches any person. To aim at, to direct one's course towards. Sasari na liang téngah nu di tuju, usually it is the middle hole which we aim at.

Tujuh, seven, the number seven. This word may be derived from To, not, and Uju, heard in Tuju, and in the Malay Měnuju, to direct towards. To-uju = not tallying, not being in the direction,—as when the native had counted his fingers up to five, which he called Lima, a hand, and then made an addition from the other hand to make six, Gěnap, completeness, and had folded down two of the fingers of that same other hand to represent 8 and 9 (see Dalapan and Salapan) two fingers remained sticking out which have to represent seven. But they are two and not one and thus do not tally, měunju from Tuju, to point against, or To-uju, do not coincide. The uju, in the sense of coincidence is heard in the word Mujur, lucky, fortunate, lying lengthwise with, and not athwart. The natives have thus counted upwards to six, but in mean time they had also counted backwards to eight by folding down two of the fingers of one hand, or two fingers from the whole ten, which had been named Sapuluh, one collection. This left two fingers to represent One number, the intermediate seven. Now supposing the index finger of the second hand to count for Seven, we have still the middle finger left in jeopardy without a use. May this have given rise to the expression in Malay of Jari-antu, the middle finger, literally the ghost-finger, the goblin-finger; or Jari mati, the dead finger, see Crawfurds Malay dictionary Page 58. The name for Seven in Javanese and many other Polynesian tongues is Pitu, which may be an abbreviation of the Javanese Pituduh, a pointer, an index, that which shows the way. And Tujuh may then be derived from the same word by dropping the initial Pi and converting the D into J, as Jěrami in Sunda, paddy straw, becomes Dami in Malay, and Dhami in Javanese. Japit or Jěpit in Malay, to squeeze, to jam together, becomes Dapit in Sunda. In the language of