THE FORMATION OF WORDS, 33 
Sgygm surut,  surut, sumurut, to with- 
draw, te bend back. 
4 | ubah, uba, umuba, ubo, umubo, to change. 
It will be seen that but for the fact that in Malay the 
vowel sign of the conjugation has weakened, being depressed 
from u to i or 6, the above mentioned Malay forms fully cor- 
respond to the Batak and Tagalog forms. Sucha slight change 
is nothing improbable, yet we need not indulge in conjectures 
in the face of even so slight a change, for we find most of the 
original forms preserved in Malay dialects, e. g. gilang-qumi- 
lang, gilap-gumilap, gelatok-gumelatok, turon-tumuron, churam- 
chumuram, lukut-lumukut, yuroh-gumuroh, etc. 
Even in the classes of verbs, which are conjugated accord- 
ing to this paradigma, the closest agreement exists. They are 
mostly verbs denoting visible motion, trembling, (See Malay : 
gemetar, gemelatok, gemelegut, etc.), and verbs, to whom this 
conjugation gives the power of “‘intensiva” (compare Malay 
gemetar, gemertak, gemilang, gemilap, gemelatok, gemelegut, temabor, 
etc.) 
2. We will now notice another class of verbal formations 
which also appear to be a remnant of a now obsolete conjugation. 
The examples given below do not exhaust the large stock pre- 
served in the language, but are merely chosen to illustrate the 
existence of the conjugation, while many other words doubtlessly 
belong to this class, though their radicals have been lost to the 
Malay vocabulary. 
5S tekan, to press with the oe telekan, to lean on the out- 
hand, stretched and _ stiffened 
arm ; 
GS tekap, to press softly with es telekap, to brush away 
the hand, with the hand ; 
EE tingkah, character, KER telingkah, to be of differ- 
ent character, to col- 
lide ; 
R. A. Soe., No. 39, 1903. 
