Ying Dense, as jungle Zim. Yao To complete Zaw. Yu To sell Zuar. Yu Rice beer Zu, a word found in one form or other throughout the Hills. NOTES [1] 1 Lung = stone; thlan = grave; "vai" may mean "foreign" or be short for "vai phei," the name of an old Kuki clan. [2] Vide p. 99 of Colonel P. R. Gurdon's Monograph on the Khasi People. [3] Compare Major Playfair's The Garos, page 114, where the word "marang" is said to have the meaning of "unlucky" and "unlawful." [4] For a somewhat similar instance of trying to ward off cholera, vide Khasi Monograph, p. 35.--P. R. G. [5] "Suak" or "Suok" in most old Kuki dialects and in Thado means a slave. [6] Can the fear of his heirs neglecting to put up a memorial stone have originated the "stone hauling" customs so distinctive of Maram and Angami Nagas? [7] The Ralte clan is described in Part II, Chap. II. [8] See above as to windows, page 27. [9] Cf. "Manipur Festival," Folklore, Vol. XXI, No. I. [10] Compare the Synteng custom of beh-dieng-khlam.--P. R. G. [11] a is merely the masculine termination. Hrangchal-a is a man's name, Hrangchal-i a woman's. The terminations are often omitted when it is known who is meant. [12] Cf. the Purum tale of the eclipse given on p. 183. [13] At the wedding the bridegroom has to kill half the number of pigs that are killed by the bride's family, thus:-- Bride's family, 5 pigs killed; the bridegroom kills 3 pigs = 8 pigs. Bride's family, 10 pigs killed; the bridegroom kills 5 pigs = 15 pigs. [14] The amount of price in these columns are all equal to one another in value and the bridegroom chooses only one out of each price according to what he has. [15] If the "Pupa" wishes for these prices to be paid he has to go to the bridegroom's house after the marriage (some other day) and kill a big pig. Then the prices have to be met quickly, or at least some of them, and the bridegroom also has to go to the "Pupa's" house and kill a pig in exchange for the pig that was killed for him. If the "Pupa" is dead (or when dead) his children can claim the prices in his stead. [16] The death-due upon a woman is heavier than that upon a man. The death-due upon a prosperous man is more than that upon a poor man. [17] Clans marked * are not dealt with in this monograph. End of Project Gutenberg's The Lushei Kuki Clans, by John Shakespear