Jakunn.
/dʒɑːˈkuːn/ An indigenous people of the southern part of the Malay peninsula; a member of this people; also, their language. Also attributive or as adj.
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1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca I. vii. 421 The Jakuns do not differ materially from the Malay in colour or physiognomy.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 323/2 The aborigines..are divided into a great many tribes, of which the best known are the Jakuns, widespread in the south.
1906 W. W. Skeat & C. O. Blagden Pagan Races Malay Peninsula I. ii. v. 235 An old Jakun, who was singularly free from superstition.
1906 W. W. Skeat & C. O. Blagden Pagan Races Malay Peninsula II. iii. vi. 196 In the Semang tribes the office of chief medicine-man appears to be generally combined with that of chief, but amongst the Sakai and Jakun these offices are sometimes separated.
1906 W. W. Skeat & C. O. Blagden Pagan Races Malay Peninsula II. iv. i. 405 It may be that before their decay, the other Jakun dialects resembled it [sc. Kenaboi] more than they do now... Kenaboi must be regarded either as the best specimen of Jakun recorded or else as not being Jakun at all.
1935 Discovery Sept. 262/2 The Jakun, straight haired and akin to the Malay, occupy Southern Johore.
1947 R. O. Winstedt Malays 14 A Jakun (or Proto-Malay) marriage ceremony..requires the groom to walk or run after his bride three or seven times round a hillock.
1958 Listener 13 Nov. 793/3 Ethnically, they [sc. the aborigines of Malaya] were divided into Jakun (proto-Malays), Negritos, and a group that was primarily Caucasoid.
1972 A. Amin tr. Shahnon Ahmad No Harvest but Thorn iii. 18 If the jakuns come out what can we say?
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