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ESSAY I
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Mentaway: uma n abak, “ house of boats ” = “ boat-house ”.
Sangirese: tinara su soa n Leiden, “ printed in (the) town of Leyden ”.
Day.: huma n papan, “ house for planks ”.
II. The locative preposition i:
Old Jav.: Arjuna-Wiwāha, edited by Kern, II, 19, c: tan madoh i sor, “ not far at bottom ” = “ down there ”.
Tag.: i habaw, “ on the surface ”.
Bug.: i liwĕṅ, “ at the side ”.
Gayo: i umah, “ in the house ”.
Mlg. : i masu, “ before the eyes ”.[1]
The Reduplicated Root as Word-base.
73. The second method of fashioning word-bases from roots consists in the reduplication of the root. This reduplication may be of three kinds:
74. First type: the root is set down twice, every sound of it.
a. Examples from Karo, which possesses a very large number of such formations:
Root kap : kapkap, “ kite ”. — Beside taṅkap, “ to seize ”.
Root gĕr : gĕrgĕr, “ to cook ”. — Beside tanger, “ to cook”.
Root kĕl : kĕlkĕl, “ to overcome all obstacles ”. — Beside doṅkĕl, “ obstacle ”.
Root bis : bisbis, “ pus ”, etc.
β. Examples from Tontb., which also exhibits very many cases. — For the understanding of these examples it is necessary to mention three Tontb. laws, as formulated by the two Adriani's.
First law: Original IN final h is dropped; see the example rĕqmba, § 40.
Second law: k becomes c whenever an i precedes. From the root koq, “ to push ”, are formed both sĕqkoq, “ impact (of collision) ”, and sicoq, “ knock, blow ”.
- ↑ [See also Essay II, §§ 96 seqq.]
