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2.2.1.7 cau- and -sur.-
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As used in Asyik (1972: 90 and 99-102), this prefix
represents several prefixes that are used to form verbs from
onomatopoetic words. The prefixes are ceu-. keu-. geu-, and
leu-. Except for geu-. each of these prefixes has two other
variants. The variants of ceu- are ca- and cu-; the variants
of keu- are ka- and ku-; and the variants of leu- are la(N)-
and li-. With only one exception, the distribution of these
allomorphs is not phonologically definable. Each of them is
used with a certain group of words. The only phonological
constraint is that prefixes with voiceless consonants are
used with words beginning with voiceless consonants and
those with voiced consonants, except [1], are used with
words beginning with voiced consonants.
tuk 'sound of knocking on a board;' keutuk 'to beat
something that produces such a sound, to knock at the
door;' »qeutuk
d'um 'the sound of beating a drum;' geud'um 'to beat
a drum or anything that produces such a sound;'
*keud'urn
phuk 'the sound of beating a soft object or mud with
the face of a concaved object;' kaphuk 'to beat eggs,
to stir mud with legs'
pi'urn 'the sound of dropping a big stone into the
water;' ceupl'urn 'to plunge into the water'