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 ballet, the full value of the particle should be shewn, and that plantak, plandok and pluru are incorrect and unscholarly.

Pe is the sign of a verbal noun. I do not know of any Malay verb landok, but that the name of the mouse-deer is derived from a word having something to do with rapidity of motion is sufficiently shewn by the meanings of other words having the same root:–


 * Lanchit and lonchat, to jump, spring.
 * Lanchar, quick, direct, fluent.
 * Lanchur, to flow, spurt out.
 * Lanjut, long, stretching forward.
 * Lantak, to strike home, transfix.
 * Lanting, to fling.
 * Langsong, to proceed direct, &c.

On the same principle, it is not incorrect to show, by the insertion of the vowel before the liquid, the existence of the forgotten particle in the first syllable of such words as, bri (be-ri), give; blanja (bel-anja), expend; blanga (bel-anga), a cooking pot; trang (te-rang), cleared; trima (te-rima), receive; trus (te-rus), through.