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INDONESIAN LINGUISTICS
III. When contraction results upon the addition of suf fixes, accentuation of the final syllable is also produced, as in Toba haduwán, “the day after to-morrow” " < formative ha + duwa, “two” + formative an. — If the feeling, that the word is a derivative, becomes lost, the accent may be shifted back again; hence Mandailing hadúwan, “the day after to-morrow” .
318. When suffixes are added to monosyllabic WB's —which in all the IN languages amount to only a very small percentage of the vocabulary — there is nothing new to be remarked as to the accent. From the Bugis noq, “down- wards” << nor < sor (§§ 40, 1, 150, III), is derived: nóri, “to bring down” , which gives rise to no observations.
319. When prefixes are added to monosyllabic WB's, the general rule is that the accent does not shift away from the WB, e.g. Bugis panóq, “to let down” < noq, “downwards” . Here, therefore, even the languages of the penultimate type have the accent on the final. — But if the feehng of derivation becomes obscured, the accent may shift back. Bungku has opá, “four”, from ěpat = prothetic ě (§ 226) + Original IN pat, but Nias has o2fa, with o < ě in conformity with § 227.
Accentuation of Doubled Words and Compounds.
320. When a word is doubled, the first element preserves its accent in some of the languages, but loses it in others. In Dayak both alternatives occur side by side, with differentiation in meaning: gila-gila, “all stupid” , gila-gila, “somewhat stupid”.
321. Here too the Toba type has all sorts of peculiarities, e.g., jalák-jalák, “to seek everywhere” , alongside of manjálak:, “to seek”, from the WB jálak.
322. In Bugis a certain number of words that have a long and accentuated final syllable, such as apĕllán, “cooking utensils”, atinrón, “sleeping apartment”, arúṅ, “king”, shift back the accent, and thereby also lose the length of the
