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meuteubiet-teubiet 'everyone is going out' (from
teubiet 'to go out').
78. Jamee bak rumoh nyan ka geu-meuteubiet-teubiet dum.
Guest at house that IN 3r-everyone-go-out all
'All the guests from that house are beginning to
leave one by one.'
f). In some verbs formed from reduplicated verbs, meu-
means 'to compete.'
muplueng-plueng 'to compete in running' (from plueng
'to run')
meutakat-takat 'to compete in aiming at a target'
(from takat 'to aim at')
meutarek-tarek (taloe) 'to compete in a tug of war'
(from tarek 'to pull').
79. Bak meutakat-takat tameh talipun lheueh keu kee.
At compete-aim-aim pole telephone go to Iv
' In the contest of aiming at a telephone pole, I
won.'
2.2.1.2 peu-
Like meu-. peu- also has a variant, pu-. which is the
result of the same vowel rounding rule that changes [aa] of
a prefix into [a] in the context of #bil.C + bil.C,
where # is a word boundary and + is a syllable boundary.