Note 83 — Chapter V · MAGIC RITES CONNECTED WITH THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS OF NATURE

Ari bĕkari: so pronounced by ’Che Indut and other Langat Malays. Bĕkari is in no dictionary that I could find, and I only came upon bĕgari by accident in Klinkert, who only gave, however, a cross-reference to pĕgari, which form he does not give in its right place. I found bĕgari, however, in Pijnappel, q.v. s.v. He explains it as meaning “to appear,” “to come to light.” A similar phrase occurs in cclxvi, infra. ↑