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INDONESIAN LINGUISTICS
bloy, "to buy" < Original IN bĕli, but the standard dialect says bloe, with a semi-vocalic e.
161. The IN diphthongs only appear exceptionally in the accentuated syllable of the WB. That is a contrast with IE, if we call to mind such cases as the Greek kairios, "fitting", or the Gothic skaidan, "to sever". Hova has certain cases like táwlana, "bone", where contraction has produced the diphthong, as there is an Old Javanese tahulan corresponding to táwlana. Mentaway has also a few cases, e.g., räwru, "to journey downstream"; they are mostly words of which the etymology is obscure.
162. In by far the greater number of the cases the IN diphthong appears in the final syllable of the WB, and constitutes the end of it. Though that is usually the syllable that does not bear the principal accent, its sonority is, nevertheless, not very much weaker than that of the accentuated syllable (see §§ 329 seqq.).
163. The diphthongs most commonly met with in the IN languages are aw, ay, and uy, and these we must ascribe to Original IN. The words paraw, "hoarse", baṅaw, "heron", patay, "to kill", balay, "house", apuy, "fire", babuy, "pig", which are found in many IN languages, must also be regarded as Original IN, the first of them in the form par2aw.
164. The Original IN diphthongs aw, ay, and uy, have undergone various vicissitudes in the living IN languages :
165. In many languages the diphthongs, as mentioned in § 163, have been preserved. Iloko has, for example, the words patáy, apuy, etc.
166. The a of ay and the u of uy may, under the influence of the y, be modified in the manner technically termed "Umlaut", hence Dayak atäy, "heart" < Original IN atay, Bontok fafüy, "pig" < Original IN babuy.
167. The first component of the diphthong may change into another vowel, thus in certain dialects of Borneo both ay and uy appear as oy, hence patoy as well as baboy. — As Orig-
