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Glossary of Kenyah Terms

adat

custom, customary, tradition

Ampan

widower

Apo Kayan

area in centre of Borneo

Balu

widow

banit

Kenyah garden or orchard (any crop but rice)

banjir kap

a method of logging, whereby logs are floated out when

bekan

rivers flood last year's ricefield

belek

tin holding 11 kg. of field dried rice

biu'

big

Bupati

Head of the District administrative unit

Camat

Head of the Subdistrict administrative unit

ces

outboard motor, with long propeller shaft

Gereja Protestan

Indonesia Barat

Protestant Church of western Indonesia

gerobeg

two-wheeled wheelbarrow

hak milik

rights of ownership

hak ulayat

rights of use

hukum adat

traditional law

ikeng

crook (in river)

ingen

basketry backpack

jalan

tarsier (Tarsius bancanus)

jekau

secondary forest (< 30 years)

jekau Wet

young secondary forest

jekau dadu'

old secondary forest

kabupaten

District administrative unit

kamang

small, bad smelling ant-like insect with a small body and

kaum ibut

long legs which the people describe as urinating poison on the plant - perhaps rice bug (Leptocorisa oratorius). women's group

kecamatan

Subdistrict administrative unit

Kemah Injil

Gereja Masehi

Indonesia

Bible Camp of the Christian Church of Indonesia

kepala

head (Indonesian)

kepala adat

a village leader in charge of customary matters related to

kutip

tradition

unidentified rice pest (insect)

layap

flood

layok

honey tree (strangling fig)

leka'

lowland, flatland, flats

lepo'

village

mpa'

old growth forest

mudung

hill(y)

ngeruseng

rice disease (probably blast)

njau alang

rice pest, probably brown planthopper (Nilaparuata lugeus).

njau liban

a kind of snake

Panyen

commoner

Paren

aristocrat

Paren Biu'

The Big Leader or Highest Aristocrat

Pelita

Pembangunan Lima Tahun (Five Year Plan)

Perkebunan Inti

Rakyat (PIR)

Nucleus Estate System (NES)

Program Bina Desa

Village Guidance Program

sensa

chainsaw

suku

enough, sufficient

taga'

drought or dry spell

tai selai

circular migration, or to make an expedition

Tamen

father of..

tiga

good

Tinen

mother of..

ubi

cassava

ulet

worm that attacks rice, probably cutworm or armyworm (cf.

ulin

Watson and Willis 1983).

ironwood (Eusideroxylon zwageri)

uma'

longhouse

uman undat

Rice Harvest Festival (lit. "eat new rice")

upit

small red, unidentified bird, perhaps Lochura malacca jagori

wakil

second in command, vice-, representative

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